20 Most Recent Toshiba 36AF41 36" TV Questions & Answers

There is no such button on the TV panel marked as Reset. you have to enter its service mode option to make it a factory reset [system Reset]. If you wish to get some details; check the site linked here. Pull up older posts. Surf the site with patience. Do a search by type in the brand name of your device at its search box and press "Enter". http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/ Service mode entry, adjust and exit procedure to many popular brand TVs are given. Never forget to exit the service mode, after all adjustments have been done.

The model listed will have INSIDE a high voltage transformer with two plastic adjustments on the rear--focus and screen are typical--screen needs to be adjusted up just a tiny amount in most cases---CAREFUL AS HIGH VOLTAGE THERE AND ADJUST MUST BE DONE WITH SET ON.a few models may have the screen control on the board at the rear of the neck of the picture tube but that is rare.

If you have a bit of basic electrical safety knowledge and some electronics skills, then you can unplug the power cord and disassemble the enclosure to have a look inside to see if the damage is something simple like a blown fuse. This can be replaced for under $5.

If the problem is more serious than that, or you are unable to conduct the troubleshooting / repair yourself, then it is probably not economical to repair it. A technician will charge you at least $60 just to have a look at it, not including any parts that would need replacing.

Decent quality second hand 36 inch CRT TVs can easily be purchased these days for under $50.

Joe.

Please view my Tips & Tricks. I have a tutorial which will help you correct this problem. Your Screen Voltage is too low. You will need to take the back of the TV to fix this. It's not hard, just be careful... the TV must be powered on during the adjustment. I hope this was helpful, best wishes.

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dose the tv have a scart lead. your xbox should have one aswell if not so into an electronics shop and ask for a scart lead thar has holes for the yellow red and white wires

If this just happens while vcr is playing. Check the vcr. Did you happen to adjust its brightness and contrast settings. If things doesn't change. Then if this model is a crt type could be adjustment on its flyback transformer is needed tweaking slowly its screen knob or tweaking also its focus knob until you got it to the level of viewing it correctly.

But be aware, hazardous voltages inside it. Or let th technician set it for you, its a minor adjustment.

Sounds like you are in close caption mode.
press the menu button and use the left and right arrow keys to highlight the 'closed caption menu"
press up or down arrows to select

navigate to closed caption off and highlight
the box should disappear

Download the user manual here:
http://www.devicemanuals.com/downloadguide.php

closed caption features start at page 30

Go to your menu/settings from the remote (or buttons on the tv, if applicable). And find the color or saturation settings, play around with those. If that doesn't work, your tv is dead, get a new one.

you have a shorted CRT
cathode ray tude.
if yoiu are a electronics tech do this
if not you run a high risk of electro shoch and posibil deth.
this is for tech only to do.

Unsolder resistor r902 going to green crt gun on socket.
atach a test clip to positive side of c909 (200 Volts) turn on tv set briefly toching other end clip to green gun pin on crt socket
this will remove the short in pictor tube and get you a bit mor life out of it.

regards,
daniel
PS if your not a tech do not try this method a q tech is best for the job.

Replace I-R sensor in tv

It really depends on what YOUR eyes are pleased with - if 50 looks good to you, that's where it should be. It seems like you might be afraid of messing up something - don't worry, you can't hurt the TV by adjusting the customer controls :-) You might try a little experimenting - kicking them up to 75 might give you a brighter and more pleasing picture. I've been a TV technician for years, and I generally like the brightness and contrast up almost to the maximum (I like a bright picture as opposed to a "warm" one), with the color and hue adjusted for an accurate reproduction of facial tones. But the bottom line is what YOU want - feel free to experiment, you can't hurt anything as long as you don't start taking out screws :-)

If this is a CRT-based TV and it's been played most of the time, you may have a bad picture tube, especially if strong red colors bleed to the right. CRT's dim with use, unlike LCD or plasma. But it could also be trouble in the video circuits - none of this falls into the DIY category, unfortunately. High voltage involved, unless you're comfortable around it and want to try turning up the screen controls inside the TV. If you do, let me know - but "no response at all" from the external adjustments points to a more serious problem.

If this is a CRT television, replace all electrolytic capacitors in the vertical circuit - this fixes 90% of all vertical deflection problems. The capacitors most likely t0 fail are low-cap, high-volt such as 3.3 uF at 50 volts, etc. Quicker and cheaper to replace them all, rather than tracing it down to the one bad part. Total cost if you do it yourself is about $15 tops, and make sure you install them correctly - electros have a plus and minus lead, and must not be installed backwards or you'll have serious blow-upage of the new parts. Before replacing the caps, however, go over all solder joints in the vertical section, reheat them and add a touch of fresh solder. You may end up not needing to replace anything.

You can set these controls to your liking, though a lower brightness setting might increase the life of the screen. First, set the brightness and contrast to a level that is pleasing to the eyes, then adjust the color to look realistic - enough color without being disturbing. If faces area look greenish or purplish, then also adjust the tint (sometimes called Hue) until you get accurate flesh tone. Flesh tone is the best thing to adjust for; when you get good flesh tone, the rest of the picture will look great. ALWAYS make adjustments during a live news broadcast, which tends to have the most accurate balance of brightness, contrast, color level and hue. Note that commercials are all recorded in different studios with different settings, and will usually not look right - it's best to just live with this than to constantly readjust the TV. There are also DVD's available which walk you through proper TV adjustment.

its a personal preferance the best way is select factory default settings as a start then turn all your colour off & get the best black & white picture you can take a flick around the channels so that you don't just set to one picture as the bbc don't do a test card anymore when your happy add colour to suit you taste most tvs have a memory for your personal taste select if applicable hope this helps

1) solder bad connects on remote sensor mounted to front edge of circuit board or, if necessary

2) Replace sensor Tosh # 23009490 ...........................T.

you can bring more brightness by removing cover on your tv and then you will see ther 2 button ther in back of your tv one is FoCUs and other is G2 rotate the G2 button till you see more brightness on your screen put the cover back and that is if you dont know to do that go to one authorised service

Chassis pull = front edge of PC board...resolder or replace sensor................T.