My brother recently moved into a new house and when he hooked up his Denon receiver just using the analog inputs from his DVD player he could not get one channel to work. He could not find anywhere in the manual that talked about a Balance control. The store where he bought it told him the Denon AVR's don't have a Balance control, is this true? I told him to use the digital out and when he hooked that up the system worked fine. So if there isn't a Balance control then maybe an analog channel is out on the DVD player.