Trying to get surround thru my speakers

I have a sneaking suspicion that your right back speaker is hooked into the front right speaker on your reciever. The tv signal might only be two channels of sound, right and left; your reciever might not send any of that sound to your rear speakers. And if your reciever thinks that your front right is actually a rear speaker, than voici le problem. The DVD and CDs might send sound to all of your speakers, making the mixup unnoticeable at first.

To test my theory, try to find the feature on your reciever that allows you to test each speaker. The reciever should concentrate sound into each speaker one at a time. That way you can tell if the reciever is hooked up right.

Oh yeah, and if I'm right, be sure to poke fun at your friend next time you see him.

My geuss is the signal coming form your tv is mono
to test it take the RCA wire in the left side input(white) and put it in the right input witch is red

to make life simple forget about the top and any thing to do with colors and just switch them around

*still don't get it (white/red) to (red/white)
_____________L____R_____L___R

If you buy a y adapter it still going to be mono
do you have pro logic as a feature on your decoder?

Hey everyone I finally fixed the problem. The vcr was playing mono and I switched it for another one I found around the house. Thanks for everyone helping me on this I really appreciate it. Thanks again.