I have thinking of getting the Sony Muteki home theater system but i read online that the amp will only act as an HDMI switcher, not a decoder. Is this important, what does this mean? so, will i be able to connect a blue-ray player to the receiver? can you give me a example which does not support HDMI decoding.

Something odd is happening. I keep buying DVD players and they keep breaking. By breaking, I mean they stop working. It seems as though there is some electrical power surge that impacts my DVD players. Here's my configuration. I have an old HTIB (home theater in a box). It's DVD player stopped working some time ago, so I had to buy a separate DVD player. The HTIB now just acts as an amp/receiver. I have a satellite dish and the TV. What could possibly be killing these DVD players? Faulty wires? Some power surge from the HTIB? Something else? Is there any way to diagnose this problem without seeing it first hand?