The learned minds of astrophysics continue to debate whether or not space is infinite, but one thing’s for sure: your space certainly isn’t. You can’t swing an elbow in here without knocking over a flowerpot, or sending a lamp tottering to the floor, or upsetting that stack of official WWF Collector’s Pogs that you spent hours putting in alphabetical order. (Remember when your Kevin Nash pog rolled under your desk and you couldn’t find it for weeks? Say what you want about wrestling, but those tears you cried every night were real.)

It won’t add a new wing to your house or anything, but the JVC RX-DV31SL 500-watt Receiver with DVD Player does its part in the fight against clutter, cramming two home theater functions into one component of modest girth. And brother, what a component! The high-powered JVC RX-DV31SL includes both a 100 watt X 5 receiver and a full-featured progressive-scan DVD player, with Dolby digital, DTS and Dolby Pro-logic II and DVD Audio processing for clean, pristine, crystalline sound. You bring the speakers, the cable or satellite TV signal, and any other components you have laying around, and the RX-DV31SL will bring the Smart Speaker Setup and a staggering array of audio and video inputs and outputs. That’s cooperation, boys and girls.

Like we said, for an honest-to-Buddha home theater hub, it’s little. Li’l, even. And when it comes to the glorified closet you live in, every li’l bit helps. Maybe now you can finally display that plaster bust of G’Kar, Ambassador of Narn, with the prominence it deserves. And people say you don’t understand great art...

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