It sounds like your inputs may be set to a digital input when you are trying to use analog (if I remember correctly, several inputs default to a digital input from the factory) -- the reason that you are only getting sound in stereo bypass mode is that it overrides the digital input and automatically uses the stereo input. For the DVD, I'd strongly recommend using the digital output from the player for DVD's -- it's the only way to get Dolby Digital and DTS material.

For each input, check the bottom left corner of the 950's display -- if you have stereo analog audio cables connected, it should say "ANALOG", and if you have a digital cable connected it should list the input you connected it to ("COAXIAL1" or "OPTICAL2", for example). If you are using the analog input and it says something other than analog, use the digital input button on the remote or the front of the 950 to scroll through the options until you get to ANALOG.

Oh, and there's also the 6-channel analog input that keta mentions -- you can connect some DVD players to that input, but it's really only needed for DVD-Audio and SACD players because those multichannel formats can only be output from the players as analog signals (six of them, to be exact).

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[This message has been edited by gonk (edited November 22, 2003).]