Like the surround sound of home theater sound systems but don't want speakers all over your room? Philips managed to take the output from 5 distinct channel amplifiers and placed them in a single speaker called a Soundbar. Within the soundbar, speakers are angled to provide a realistic audio environment that literally emulates sound as if it's coming from all sides. It's 5.1 surround without the mess!. Oh, almost forgot to mention, it also have a DVD player and MP3 player built in.Now that's what I call technology