What one component can bring my current system up to date?

What one component can bring my current system up to date?

Jeff Colen (President, A Sharper Home, Inc.) gives expert video advice on: What one component should I not skimp on and why?; How are people using media in their homes?; What types of control systems are becoming popular? and more...

If there is any one particular component that you would replace in your current system after buying a new TV, you'd look to your AV receiver because more than likely that is the one piece of equipment that in the last five years has changed the most, and where the price point has fallen almost as dramatically as the TV prices have. By purchasing a new AV receiver, you are going to get benefits like surround sound processing which only existed in very expensive receivers just five years ago. You'll get multizone capabilities that will allow you to play one type of music in one particular part of your house and then play a different audio in another part of your house. You'll get capabilities that will allow you to do sound customization to program a room to set up it up correctly, set up your audio correctly, built into the receiver itself and finally you will be able to process and handle high definition video content which you could only do in very expensive receivers only a couple of years ago.