20 Most Recent Denon AVR-2807 Receiver Questions & Answers

Maybe the video portion of your receiver was fried by the lightning. The good news is, you don't need it!
I run all my video sources (sattelite, xbox and dvd player) to my TV with hdmi cables, and a single toslink(optical) from the televison to my 5.1 home theatre receiver. it sounds great and I only use a single input of the receiver for all my video.

If your setup does not have toslink themn use coaxial digital. it is also one wire and probably is indistinguishable in sound quality.

for future, run the power for all your electronics through a UPS or fancy surge supressor to protect them from bad power (and lightning)

Sorry, if the speakers are good, it will have to go in for repair.

Change the hdmi cable and try. If not then you have an hdmi fault module.

Check the speaker setup configuration in the setup menu. Many times the surround back speaker terminals can be assigned to something else like zone 2. They may just be turned off.

Greg,you are not an idiot,you are just not an expert,that's all.Since you are not an expert but would like to have a quick way to do this,i recommend you to connect your DVD player with the HDMI cable connect it directly to the TV HDMI input.
Some of the DVD player required you to select HDMI source,but before we jump to that conclusion,let just take it once step at a time.
Let me know if you HAVE to connect your DVD player through the receiver,then i will have to show you 7-8 other steps with 2-3 extra steps for your TV in order to make this happen.
Or you could hire me-:o)
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