I just got a digital tv set top box a couple of weeks ago and man does it sound amazing (I won't even get started on how much better HD looks compared to DVD). ABC runs a bunch of movies like the Bond films and those are all in 5.1 which the 1050 nicely puts into 6.1. Toy Story was on last week on ABC and it sounded unreal. Also, DirecTV just bumped up the number of 5.1 stations to about 20, so I'm in 6.1 mode on a very frequent basis. I'm not sure about your particular cable system, but I think that the number of stations broadcasting in 5.1 is steadily increasing.