If you can find my Virtual System "Decent Home Theater on the Cheap." it would be a good place to start.
HT system for 3500
Looking for suggestions at what apparently is a beginners budget on HT in family room for the wife and kids. They watch a lot of movies. I have decent two channel system (Plinius 8200, Dynaudio 1.3se) in my listening room that I want to keep separate I think. However, it would still be nice to listen to music as well on the HT.