If you have a TV and a speaker system you are on the right way with staying up with the technology, most of the people who buy surround sound systems do not like to buy small systems for their home entertainment they like to go big.
There are a lot of people who bought the big surround sound system with the big screen TV and relied that these surround sound speakers are taking up way to much place in your entertainment room after all the smallest big system is the 5.1 which has five speakers and a subwoofer. Other people are tired of all the wires laying around, always tripping over cables and making your entertainment room look sloppy.
Well those people do not have to worry because the technology has stepped in to the next generation of surround sound and created a virtual surround sound system. the virtual surround sound was created to equal the capability of a multi speaker system . » Read more..