Hopefully, the downside of the cycle with SC will end this year or next.

As for the sound system I am running a 6.1 using the 1050 as a Prepro to the Parasound for the NHT VT1.4 fronts and to directly run the NHT VS 1.4 center and 3 NHT Superzero XU's in the back. The Parasound is a holdover from an older system.

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortuanately, my wife is not very demanding from a sound perspective, sometimes I think she doesn't even appreciate how much sound adds to a movie (or at least won't admit it to me). I am not sure how the OSD would help, I have a MX700 remote with a ton of activity macros (e.g. pushing the DVD button, switches the 1050 and HDTV's to the DVD player audio and video inputs respectively, turns on the DVD player, changes the HDTV screen format to full wide screen mode and then displays all of the relevant DVD controls).