Budget Home Theater System

I did some research on Home theater systems and bought a Yamaha YHT 270 recently. I have been using it for a few weeks now and am really satisfied with its performance. It is a HTIB (Home Theater in a Box) with a HTR 5930 A/V reciever and NS-P270 Speaker package. It is indeed great value for money. The whole package came for under $300. I also bought a Sony DVD player, DVP-NS55P and all I focussed here was one with a DTS decoder. It took some time for me to figure out how to get the DTS output. There is a tricky setting on the DVD player that you need to do so that it sends out DTS signals. This is not really "tricky", as it is part of the initial "quick setup", but those who don't read the user manual before setting up stuff, this could be tricky.
I also had to decide whether to buy a DVD player with an optical audio out or whether one with a co-axial digital audio out would do. I did some reading and figured out both are identical over short distances. Optical cable would have less lost signals over long lengths. But all I needed was the shortest digital cable that can just get the digital signals from DVD player to the A/V reciever. So a DVD player with no optical out costed less, the cable also costed less, and there is no difference in the quality of digital audio signals transferred.

For those who are willing to spend more money, here is a link that I found really good -
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