Page 1 of Home cinema systems-Yamaha AVS-7-redundant apart from DVD sound ?

I`m very drawn towards the above as a surround sound set-up, given that link are selling it for £249. My question is this though. Will this only give me surround sound when I use my DVD ? Will it lie dormant when watching normal TV or SKY ? Be difficult to justify to the missus if it`s only on when we`re watching a DVD ( or playing a CD I suppose ). Anything special I should know about connecting an LG3350 to it ?
Cheers for any info.

Depends on what you mean by dormant and the speakers you are going to purchase or already have which you are going to use with it.

Currently, in the UK, only laserdisc and DVD supports DD5.1/DTS.

Sky digital are reported to considering DD5.1 some time this year but the majority of the current digiboxes have no optical out/co-ax.

However, a number of broacasts are DPL and even stereo or mono will sound better through a fairly cheap amp and speakers than the sound system of the television.

When you connect the audio up to the amp, the television sound will become dormant and you will use the amp for everything. You will not use it just for DVD.