I have a Phillips DFR-1600 DVD/Surround Sound system player. When playing a DVD the player will not pick up (play) any voices. It plays all the background noise and all the music but no voices. Can anybody help?

I have a Philiphs DFR _1600 Surround Sound Receiver with Built in DVD Player . I Don't Have The Remote , I got the Dfr 1600
ay Gooodwill for $25 Dollars ,
I would like to ADJ The rear Speakers , Turn them up
Is There a Way to turn up the Rear Speakers on the Unit it,s Self .
with out a Remote .


My Kenwood Surround sound Unit has this on the front of the unit .
Thank you
Harry w

Bought a new unit. The old unit was a surround sound system in which the previous owner removed the speakers. I wasn't aware of the problem but found out that it would not allow it to play on Dolby 5.1...It would only play DVD's on channel 2, therefore no english etc. Thanks for your help!!!

my phillips mx 3660D digital surround dvd system won't read the movies any more it says no disc.It will play music cd's beautifully ok whats the problem? help it was playing fine

You are listening to a Dolby Digital source and you either don't have a center speaker hooked up or, it's not enabled. If you only have 2 speakers connected to a surround receiver, switch your receiver from surround to surround off. If this doesn't work, or you need more help, specify your system and how it's all hooked up.

Plug in center speaker -- seems right and left speakers are secondary carrying only the background / sound affects.

The dvd player is responsible for reading the surround sound track, and sending it to the receiver. First make sure you are playing the surround sound track on the dvd, many have a stereo track too. Next, try another dvd and see if you can play surround sound on that one. If you can't play surround on ANY dvd I would start looking at the audio connection from dvd to receiver. Are you using an optical cable? Red, white, and yellow RCA cables? Optical will transmit any sound over only one cable, RCA cables need one cable for each channel (LF, C, RF, LR, RR, sub.) If your connections are correct, is the receiver set to play a surround sound track? Is it set in 2 channel mode?

Go to sound menu of dvd player and select Stereo sound and if surround is enabled, disable it.
You can get help from user manual of dvd player.

You did not say if you have connected the video out on the surround system to the video in on the tv. If not connect it and select that input on the tv.

do you have 5.1 speakers with built in amp?

sounds like you may have a dodgy scart lead.check that none of the pins are loose/damaged. Also check the sound settings on the tv, it may have reset itself to the default sound setting. Or it might just be the audio settings on your dvd player have been adjusted,almost all dvd movies have there own audio adjustments.