There are many options if you want to use surge protection, from strips to power centers.
I use a Monster power center mainly for the convenience of having something to plug all my compnents into, and it looks good.
A couple movies to show off some good LFE and surround effects can be found if you do a search on this forum as it's been discussed before. A couple I use are War of the Worlds and the just released Pirates of the Caribbean.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.