I have a Toshiba A3 HD DVD player and have the player HDMI going to my display for video and the optical audio output going to my 990. I have a 7.1 setup with seperate stereo amplifiers for the middle surround and rear surround speakers.

I ran the 990 auto setup and everything went fine.

The amps have an indicator light to indicate when they receive a signal and are operating properly. The middle rear amp indicator light never lights up.

I'm not getting any sound from the middle rears and before I remove anything I was wondering if there was any way to get 7.1 sound from the 5.1 audio output of the Toshiba. Something like the left middle and rear surrond speakers sharing the same information and the right middle and rear surround speakers sharing the same information.

I have a feeling I can't but before I remove anything I wanted the opinion of people who know much more than me.

Thanks for your help.

skitlboy