We live on a canal boat and about a month ago we bought a Panasonic Soundbar. It is amazing both for massively improved TV sound and for saving space. A major consideration aboard. It's mentioned in a post above that you should go to a proper audio shop and ask questions. I firstly went to Richer Sounds in and they convinced me that the sound bar was the way to go but I needed to check connections on our TV and other equipment I wanted to use with it. The Panasonic unit has 4 HDMI inputs and one optical connection. I also needed a mini jack input as my old iPod is not Bluetooth. However when I went and bought the Soundbar at Richer a Sounds in Chiswick ( too complicated to explain why there and not Bath) I asked about the jack input and was shown one on the demo model right next to the optical input. But when I got it home that jack socket was not an audio input but a connection point for a remote infra red control unit should the built in one be hidden behind the TV if the Soundbar is mounted. So be careful even if you go to the specialists. They don't always know everything. However the of the sound from our Panasonic SC-HTB880 connected to our via optical far out ways there not being a mini jack connection for my iPod. We play our music via very reliable Bluetooth from our laptop more than we use it for TV sound.

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