Quote Originally Posted by Rich-n-Texas
Made the connections, switched the receiver into Multi Ch Input, and the receiver shows no indication that anything is present at the 5.1 analog inputs. No sound, and the TV still goes back and forth with the screen flashing, going blank, and then back to the DVD logo. When I closed the tray on the changer and selected the spot where the DVD audio disk is, the player starts playing and GRP 1 is indicated on the display. When I hit the stop button, the DVD goes into what looks to be *stop but don't lose your place mode*, but when I hit the stop button again, the player just locks up. Won't accept remote commands and won't accept front panel commands. I have to shut the unit off. This tells me that the player, even though it's reading the disk, still doesn't know what to do with it. Also, there is no option in the "Others" menu to select to play DVD audio/video and I changed both decoder settings from bitstream to PCM.

I'm going to wipe the disk with a damp soft cloth and try again, but I really think this is either a bad DVD disk, or maybe there's some kind of software upgrade for the F87 that I'm not aware of that needs to be installed.
I had a few similar issues with a few DVD-A as well, in fact I had to return QUEEN's THE GAME a total of 3 times before finally getting a copy that would cooperate. Like your issues it would do things on it's own, it wouldn't allow me to access certain portions and I just kept exchanging it until I got one that worked. It could have been a bad batch. I would at least try another one before giving up all hope.