Video
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No picture | ❏ | If your TV does not turn on, and a red light keeps flashing, your TV may |
(screen not lit), no sound |
| need service. Call your local Sony Service Center. |
| ❏ | Make sure the power cord is plugged in. |
| ❏ | Press the POWER button on the front of the TV. |
| ❏ | Press the TV/VIDEO button to cycle through the connected video sources. |
| ❏ | Try another channel; it could be station trouble. |
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Dark, poor or no | ❏ | Adjust the Picture option in the Video Menu (see page 62). |
picture (screen lit), | ❏ | Adjust the Brightness option in the Video Menu (see page 62). |
good sound | ❏ | Check the antenna/cable connections. |
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No Video on | ❏ | Check to be sure that you have not connected both S VIDEO and composite |
VIDEO 3 Input |
| video cables to the VIDEO 3 input. You can use S VIDEO or composite |
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| video inputs for VIDEO 3, but not both. |
No color | ❏ | Adjust the Color option in the Video Menu (see page 62). |
Only snow and noise | ❏ | Check the antenna/cable connections. |
appear on the screen | ❏ | Try another channel; it could be station trouble. |
| ❏ | Press ANT to change the input mode (see page 45). |
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Dotted lines | ❏ | Adjust the antenna. |
or stripes | ❏ | Move the TV away from noise sources such as cars, neon signs, or hair- |
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Double images or ghosts | ❏ | Using a highly directional outdoor antenna or a cable may solve the |
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“Black box” on screen | ❏ | You have selected a text option in the Setup Menu and no text is available. |
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| (See page 72 to reset Setup selections.) To turn off this feature, set the |
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| Caption Vision option to Off. If you were trying to select closed captioning, |
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| select CC1 instead of Text |
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Bars appear at the | ❏ | Some |
top and bottom of the screen |
| than 16:9 (this is especially common with theatrical releases). Your TV will |
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| show these programs with bars at the top and bottom of the screen. For |
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| more details, check the documentation that came with your DVD (or |
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| contact your program provider). |
Certain programs on DVD or ❏ | The compression used by certain digital broadcasts and DVDs may cause | |
other digital sources display |
| your TV's screen to display less detail than usual, or cause artifacts (small |
a loss of detail, especially |
| blocks or dots, pixelations) to appear on your screen. This is due to your |
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| TV's large screen and ability to show very fine detail, and is normal for |
scenes |
| certain digitally recorded programs. |
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