| Re: surround sound
There may be sockets for adding speakers to the TV, although i would strongly suggest buying an AV receiver if you really want to spruce your sound up a bit.
Most freeview transmissions are in Dolby Prologic, so you will get 2 channel (+dialog speaker) sound, plus the rear channels would be matrixed from the front channels. This gives quite a decent surround-sound....although the jump to Dolby Digital 5.1 is (IMO) quite noticeable.
DD5.1 sources would be DVDs and any HD source (SkyHD, HD-DVD, BluRay etc).
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