I hear you loud & clear.
Until fairly recently I seemed to spend more time talking about surround than actually doing surround - but happily this has started changing.
Doing more now than ever before!
We have even made a substantial investment recently, buying the DTS-Pro series encoders - no point getting into DTS-HD as yet until (if?) I start getting any serious HD enquiries.
But at these prices, at least one of the audio forms is affordable - if not the authoring software (Have you seen the prices of Scenarist 4!)