CNET rounds up all the photos of Panasonic's new home theater products at CES 2010.
An audio return channel is one of the new features of the HDMI 1.4 standard, and theoretically you could connect all your components directly to your HDMI 1.4-compatible HDTV with just a single HDMI cable sending the audio back to the sound bar.
For more information, see our full blog on the Panasonic SC-HTB1.