Why don't my surround sound speakers work?

I recently bought a home theatre system, sony Dav-tz 135 to connect to my sony bravia. Everything on it works fine, I get excellent sound playing dvds, cds, mp3s and the radio except when the tv is on watching just normal tv there is no sound at all...

I bought creative 7.1 speakers and recently got a bravia tv. Now I know creative 7.1 speakers are compatiable with TV, it's just i need the wires too connet each other cause their different from pc wire's. So if i buy the right wire to connect the tv...

Ok so, I have a newish 750 7 Series Samsung TV and a Samsung surround system. I also use Direct TV. I currently have it setup as such. HDMI From my Direct tv to my Television, and Optical Cable from the TV to the surround sound. I am unable to access...

I have a sony surround sound, there is four speakers, the middle one has never worked and im not woried about it, it soundds like its hooked up because it has a sound like its on but no music comes out, the right close one and the far right one work...

I Have a dell inspiron 531. with the stock sound card. It seems to have all the inputs - gray, black, pink, green, blue etc. I know I hooked everything up the way its supposed to be. But for some reason when I open up my Realtek HD audio manager (Also...

I bought a new dvd player which came with surround speakers. I hooked up the dvd and the speakers and they work fine. The thing is I want my television to work thru the surround speakers too. So when im watching tv i want to hear the sound thru the surround...

i use 7.1 surround sound in windows XP and all the speakers work. but then i did a clean install with windows vista ultimate X64 but only 2 work. when i configure the speakers, (and you have to click on the speakers to check if they are working), all...

I have a Phillips 5.1 surround sound system (HTS3510) and ive had it for a few months now. Recently i noticed that the rear 2 speakers and the centre speaker weren't working when i plugged it into my laptop to use as speakers. i thought this was because...

hi iv got a technics hifi and its great sounds excellent but when i put it onto radio the surround speakers dont work iv tryed pressing all the sound functions ie pro logic, super surround, centre focus etc, but they just wont come on any ideas the surround...