Connecting a LCD television to an old DVD home cinema surround system.?

Hi I have a LG LCD television with built in Dolby digital surround built in. I've connected it up to my old surround sound home cinema system which runs through a dvd player. Its great for watching DVD's with, but thats the only time I can get the surround sound to work when its using a DVD. My mate has connected his surround sound system to his lcd tv and it works all the time when watching the footie for instance. Does anyone know if I could do this with my System, or is it to old and only designed for use with DVD's. Its only a cheap ALBA 5.1 home cinema system by the way. Cheers.

Connect tv to subwoofer,using an RCA phono lead(Red and Black),buy one long enough,plug it into tv phono out sockets,and plug the other end into 2 chnl L+R on subwoofer.On the front of your sub when you power it up,on the the right select 2ch,on the left select 5.1 Stereo.Should work.

Your can listen to your tv through your system. You just need to connect your tv's audio outputs to one of the cinema systems audio inputs and select that input for your sound when you want to listen to the tv.

If you don't have enough inputs you can buy a selector box from radio shack.

With the additional information it looks like your DVD player/surround system does not have an input that can accept the Dolby Digital Surround from the TV.

It sounds like the the DVD player only has outputs and not inputs to get the TV sound into it. If it can't get the TV sound in it can't put it out to the 5.1 see?

On most of these kind of DVD/Sound systems they either have no sound inputs at all or just 1 L+R input for like a cd player or tape deck or VCR.

My sister in law had the same style of DVD/5.1 amp setup and she had no inputs to get TV channel sound input as well.