High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is state-of-the-art connection technology, allowing uncompressed sound and video signals to transfer from your source equipment directly to your high definition television (HDTV). Instead of a bunch of tangled-up connections like you have with DVI or with component video (those red/green/blue jacks), HDMI completes your audio and your video transfers using just one small jack.

So how does this all affect you, as the buyer of all of this complicated technology? What this means is that you will only need to purchase one cable, not several as you did in the past, to connect your HDMI source equipment (like a Blu-ray disk player, Xbox 360, Wii, HD cable or satellite box, new A/V surround receiver, etc.) to your HD television.

Design: With Sony's standard piano black color scheme with silver envelope for the speakers and subwoofer, and a swath of blue for the AV receiver, which sees Sony HT-SS2300 Component Home Theater System both simple and elegant. During this 5.1-channel system works with other brands, it was originally made to complement Sony's products, and as such it was the Sony Bravia HDTV Series and the Sony Blu-ray disc fitPlayer. Consisting of the AV receiver a big subwoofer and four smaller satellite speakers of the system is very easy to set up and operate, thanks to the informative text-based interface. Since the entire ensemble is not too much space, it's ideal sound-proofed for small apartments, but is just as capable in a much larger scale.