I cannot get a picture on any channel. Not hooked to cable. No antenna. What is the problem?

That is the part that contains the tuner.

Usually a TV must be set to either channel 3 or 4 to receive a TV service provider such as cable or Direct TV. The service provider now controls your channels and broadcasts on either channel 3 or 4. You choose channels from what ever equipment they gave you which is usually not the remote that came with your set. You may need to check the way you are set up. If you are using an antenna go into the menu on the TV and make sure it is set to antennae not cable. This may also be the problem. Good luck.

It depends on if you have cable or are using an antenna. If you have cable, make sure you have the cable that runs in between them hooked up to the correct spots. If you're using an antenna, you might need to get a TV converter box. A couple of years ago, they stopped making regular TV channels and switched to only digital channels. Most older TVs don't work with digital channels, so you need a box that will convert the picture. You can get one at any place that sells TVs (walmart, amazon, etc)

Couple of things.

• Are you on an antenna or cable/sat box?
• If you are on an antenna, the sub-channel of a local DTV station (22-2) was the only thing the digital receiver was able to pickup on the initial scan of channels.
• If you are on an antenna, rescan for available channels.
• If you are on a cable/sat box, and scanned for channels you probably picked up a like channel that is in the same bandwidth as 22-2. Probably not even a channel.
• If you have a cable or satellite box, hook it up to one of the VIDEO channels using either a Composite AV cable (Yellow/Red/White) or a Component A/V Cable (RED/GREEN/BLUE with RED/WHITE for audio. If you are lucky enough to have HDMI for your source, use that.
• Going forward, all of your changing channels will be from the SOURCE.

If I understand your request right, You do not have cable or satellite box.
You can not record from your TV. You use the TV as a monitor from the dvd/vcr combo box. What the box receives is what shows on the TV. So you will have to have a digital convertor hooked to the (antenna in) dvd/vcr combo box, (antenna out to the tv antenna in) Depending on the antenna you are using that is on the other end of your cable-in coax connection this will hook to your antenna in on the digital convertor box. If your cable is hooked up and operating correctly and directly to the tv that is digital ready you probabbly have a good picture. When the vhf/uhf signal was transmitted you could go from the dvd/vcr to the tv with no problem. But now that the signal is digital and the tv is set for digital the dvd/vcr will not pass a digital signal to the tv. Best suggestion, you have to get a digital dvd/vcr receiver. If you have more question please contact me.

Mike

tuner is bad. they dont make spare parts for that tv.

You gotta have a way to get signal to the tv . If you don't want a outside antenna use rabbit ears .After you hook them up hide them behind the tv then do a channel scan. If you don't pick up all the stations set them on top and scan again or get satillite or cable hd boxes.

If you're not on cable or satellite, you will need an antenna to get off-the-air reception. This TV does not have a DTV tuner, so you will also need the converter box. Depending on how far you are from the broadcasters' transmitters, you might be able to get away with an indoor antenna. Or you might find that you get few channels with the inside antenna and then you'll need something outdoors. There are a number of styles to choose from.

The antenna hooks to the converter box, and the converter box then goes to the TV. It can be hooked to the TV's "ANTENNA" connector. This should be covered in the set's manual where it shows you how to connect a regular antenna. With the box, your TV will always stay on channel 3 or 4 (depends on how you set up the box) and you'll change channels on the converter.

You can also connect the converter to the TV with audio and video cables like you would a DVD player. Most of the "coupon-eligible" converter boxes include direct video and audio output jacks. This gives you better picture and sound quality than by hooking it to the TV's antenna input.

Hooking up a converter box is like going back in time to when cable TV was new and you had to get a converter box from your cable company. Same way of hooking it up. Hope this helps!

can you enter channel 4 manually and get picture

If you have it hooked up to a digital box, it shouldn't matter if the TV is on cable or antenna mode. The only thing that matters is that the TV is on channel 3. Channels will be changed on digital box. Some newer TV's use input 1 or 2 or AUX for it to work. If I were you i would hook everything up and start playing with the channels going up and down until you get a picture.