Lg lht854....wont play sound out of rear and center speakers

you bought it new ... every new prodycts should come with warranty therefore best advice take it down to where ever you bought it from

Have you tried the VSM (Virtual Sound Matrix) button on the remote? I think you will have to scroll through the various sound processors ie..stage...virtual matrix..etc...to find the one that will have all surround speakers working. Hope this helps

Ok your dish network wont play through the LHT854? Which Dish network receiver do you have 211, 311, 625, 612, 722? From the owners manuel for the LHT854 it looks like you can only hook up the audio from another source by an optical cable, so how is the LHT854 hooked up to the dish network receiver?

I have an almost exact set-up and you will only get sound out of your rear speakers when the TV channel is broadcasting in 5.1 Ch Stereo. Otherwise the sound is limited to your front, center, and woofer speakers.

(got the video to play through the speakers and not the audio) how do you see video in your speakers?

I had the same issue, but apparently...it's not an issue. What I discovered is that the system was fine, but the station I was watching didn't broadcast in 5.1 surround sound. Therefore, only the front speakers will have sound. Try putting a dvd in, or listening to a gameing system through it. If you don't have sound after listening to something that puts out full surround sound, then you know you have an issue.

if you hook up a fiber optic cable from your main dvd component thingy straight to your tv, then all sound from tv will come out the left and right front speaker and sub woofer. only downside is your center and rear speakers wont be in use, but its better than nothing. your tv of course has to have an input for the fiber optic cable.

This is a typical problem with TV broadcast UNLESS you use a matrix DSP surround sound mode, most DVD audio is either Dolby digital 5.1 surround or DTS multi-channel surround sound, unless you are viewing a HDTV broadcast with 5.1 Digital sound connected from the TV to the receiver then you are probably receiving a 2 channel Stereo sound format, I would suggest that you try to set your TV input mode to a audio Dolby Pro- Logic which will yield 5.1 and should engage all speakers.

All four of the small speakers are identical, the original speaker wires are color coded. the very ends are all black and red, corresponding to the black and red connections on the back of the receiver and on the speaker, and there is another color band lower on the wire, which corresponds to the color on the receiver speaker connectors that details front right, front left, rear right, rear left, center, subwoofer.

If you are using standard speaker wire, it has two colors. Pick one for the red, and one for the black.
Just be consistent and connect all speakers the same at both ends (Copper color to plus-red / silver color to minus-black)

Just clicked on sound effect on the lg tv remote it was set to 2.1 changed to 5.1 and the system came alive!!