I never bought into LD as I never liked the size of the discs so I went from a large video tape collection to buying that first Sony DVD player, the S7000 in 1997. There was no hesitation on my part as I quickly accepted that video tapes would be history in the not too distant future. Shortly...
I don't have any friends that had 5.1 setup and switched to soundbars. I did have friends that switched from TV speakers to soundbars. Many of them either didn't have room for 5.1 speaker setup or the wife didn't want wires/cables attached to such a setup.
Those of us with 5.1 or more setups...
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