Surround Sound Hi, I've had a similar unit to this (SA-DK10) for a while now and love it. My only problem with it is that I've never had it hooked up to my TV for anything other than watching DVD's. Is it possible to have this unit hooked up for when I'm watching regular TV? I don't have a manual because I bought it as an open item at Circuit City, but from playing around with it, it doesn't seem to have that capability. Is there an alternative? Thanks in advance, Dave

I don't know the answer but I just wanted to mention; many VCRs contained a dew sensor to prevent the unit operating at times of high humidity or when condensation formed in the machine.

Perhaps your system has a similar sensor and it detects high humidity or condensation when your air-con is operating.

5 1 Surround Sound Set Up Guide

How to Hook up Surround Sound

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For surround sound, you need an A/V receiver with 5.1 or 7.1 surround capability. Depending on what kind of receiver you have, the DVD player, satellite/cable box, etc hooks to the receiver, those signals go out to the TV, and the speakers hook to the receiver. The receiver decodes the signal from the cable/satellite box or DVD player and routes it to the appropriate speakers. If the TV program or DVD isn't HD or coded for surround sound, the best you can expect is 2.1 channel stereo sound. OR, you can hook everything (DVD, satellite/cable box) to the TV and run an optical cable from the Digital Output of the TV to the receiver, which is basically the same thing, just a different way to hook everything up. Hope this helps

Do you mean SC-DK10?

Register and download the manual for free at retrevo.com

http://www.retrevo.com/support/Panasonic-SC-DK10-Home-Theater-Systems-manual/id/312ci855/t/2/

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It's possible that the TV broadcast isn't in true surround, and is only dolby encoded.
You can try going back to the component hookups, but I am not sure that will solve your issue.

From what I can see the only way to do it is by fitting a special chip.
A website is offering a modification kit for sale.
JVB Digital Codefree Panasonic SA DK10 DVD modification kit

remember to turn the volume up on the cable box and down on the surround sound so you will get max audio input to the surround system and then adjust using the surround sound remote! good luck

Use whatever TV sound output conforms to your receiver's input. If an optical or coaxial digital sound output is available, that is the way to get 5.1 surround sound through the SA-DX1050. But you have to assign the correct input (COAX, OPT1 or OPT2) to the selector (TV, DVD, CD). See pp 12-13 of the operationg instructions for D-Input instructions. If you don't have the manual you can download it at Panasonic.com.

you blew your power amp board, you cannot hook them in series due to impediance matching and improper input levels, cheaper to replace reciever than the board