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As well as I main stereo and studio set up, I have two simple and effective telly set ups in different rooms, neither of which cost lot and do everything I need.
Downstairs in the kitchen/dining/living room I have a cheap telly, going straight into a silver Yamaha A-S500 amp with the little Yamaha blue-tooth attachment, which works very well for streaming to from my phone or laptop as required. Speakers are Q acoustic 2020i. Perfectly acceptable for casual listening and telly. I leave the sound from the telly on and just kick in the amp to add welly and bottom end. It's hard-wired so no latency. All good. Gets cranked up for party time listening too.
In the other telly room (the "grown up living room") we have a slightly better sounding telly going in to an old Pioneer silver-face amp (with rad glowing green tuner) and some Wharfedale Diamond 9s performing same support function as downstairs.
None of it fancy but it all works with minimum fuss and has way more volume and bottom end that you can reasonably get away with for watching movies in a terraced house.
Personally, I've never felt the need for surround or subs for home viewing... or at all to be honest.