Price Paid:  $499.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
Excellent receiver with high quality outputs. I like how it's so powerful and can output with 500 AMPs to several speakers. It's a 5.1 receiver so that's good though all are now a days. The price is a bit high but I don't mind since it operates so well. The cons are that it would be nice if it also came in silver as a color. I do like black but silver would have fit my apt better.

Strengths:
Amp 500 watts
Can connect DVD, VCR, computer
Optical outputs

Weaknesses:
Needs to come in silver
Price was a bit high- 350 would have been more reasonable.