I can report on overall success and some challenge I overcome in hope it will help other as well . first , the definition of wireless can be debate , but for the price of the unit I appreciate eliminate the really long wire snake up and over doorway and furniture to get across the family room to the rear speaker . the wireless base unit be sit right behind I now while I type this on my wireless laptop , so no interference problem . second , dvd playback be great with 5.1 Dolby Digital , although yes , there be some hiss that inspire you to move the rear speaker a little further from you head . also , experiment with different sound setting -lrb- single button on the remote that cycle through option -rrb- when the input be not really 5.1 sound . I find that stereo usually sound more full and true than use the system to create pseudo-5 .1 sound . this be especially true for FM radio . Third , I have a major confusion about VCR hookup . my tv be a low end 32 inch Panasonic CRT with only 1 Video input screen and no sound output . I want the VCR route through the speaker too , so I follow the instruction to use my VCR output connect with -lrb- red , white , yellow -rrb- component connector to the AUX 1 input on the dvd player\/receiver . no such luck at first . Audio be fine , but video be blank . it turn out one simple solution be to switch to channel 3 or 4 -lrb- 4 in my case -rrb- on the main tv tuner -lrb- not Video 1 as be the case for dvd playback -rrb- and then turn on the tv\/video option of you VCR . sound and video be then in sync and run through the receiver . I recommend this system give the price and functionality .