Specifying a new AV system

My good friend Rog at HatBlog reminded me that I haven't been blogging about any new technology for a while. So I thought I'd start some new entries on my new AV system that I'm currently researching.

To start with I've been looking at the heart of the new system - the AV Amplifier. My current top choice is the new Denon AVC-A11XV



Details of AVC-A11XV:
A/V Surround Amplifier 7-Ch Power Amp
140 W x 7 ohms output
THX Ultra2
Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Pro Logic IIx, Dolby Headphone, HDCD Decoder
DTS, DTS-ES Discrete/Matrix6.1, DTS 96/24, DTS Neo:6
New D.D.S.C.-Digital Circuit
New 32-bit floating point DSP
Advanced AL24 Processing
DENON LINK
IEEE 1394 digital interface
Pure Direct Mode
Auto Setup and Auto Room EQ with Audyssey MultEQ XT
HDMI/DVI digital video In/Out terminals
Analogue video up/down conversion with interlaced images
Analogue video up conversion capability to HDMI Output