Black box keeps poping up in the middle of the tv

1. Remove the batteries from your remote to ensure that is not sending signals to the TV.

2. The TV may have an internal problem and might need repair.

You have your TV in the "Teletext" mode. Go into the TV menu and select the closed-captioning menu and turn off the text function. What you are seeing is the result of the TV's captioning circuit latching onto a false text pilot signal and then throwing up the black box on the screen.


michtech

Try turning off your closed caption.

Try this:

In the menu go to CC and set the TV to CC1 as this is a text box appearing for captions. Hope this works!

Check to see that you don't have any channel locks or parental parental permission measures deployed. If so remove them, this includes V-Chip, and Parental lock out on the remote, and check your TVs menu items. What channel are being affected by this problem? Give channel number and channel type.

Thank you,

Shuttle83

The black box is caused by the Closed Caption option of the tv. Go into the menu and turn it off.

The black box is there because your closed captioning is on and set to text mode. Some channels send the signal even when there is no actual text to display. You can get rid of it by either turning off closed captioning or changing it to CC1 or CC2 mode instead of text. If you can't find those settings, then restore factory settings as directed in your user manual.

my tv was working fine. somebody hit the menu button on the tv or the remote and i get the black box appearing in the middle of the screen. and also the pip is staying on my tv it keeps showing "a snowy picture of pip sjpwomg channels 2 through 18 i cannot figure out how to get this off of my screen.

make sure you lock the setting menu.

iv'e run into this before, you have closed caption text 1,2,3 or 4 on. this is different than the normal "cc" cation. just go into your menu & turn off closed caption.