BLack box in the middle of my screen?

use your remote to go to your closed caption settings and shut off the 'text'.

It's a text box for either closed captioning or demonstration mode. Go into the setup menu and turn off closed captioning. If you have trouble doing that, then just restore factory settings.

use your remote then turn off the text messege of your tv.the black screen that you seen is for the messege but since their is no message written in the box ,that's why you see a black box.

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!

Note that the large black box goes away when pushing buttons on the tv (ex: the black box will disappear to show the volume setting when changing the volume on the tv but it will cover the picture and the menu display of the dtv box).

This is caused by the closed caption setting of the television set NOT the captioning of the converter box. To fix this you must open your television's menu, find the ccd/closed caption option, and turn it off. This is a frustrating problem as when most people are told to shut off the captioning they try to do so at the box.

Normal dtv box captioning will appear as a small text box at the bottom of the screen as you would expect - not as a giant black rectangle that covers most of the screen. If you do want to shut this off too you will find that you can't do it through the usual menu options (the menu will only allow changes to font, color etc.) - there should be a ccd button on the remote that when pushed will scroll through ccd-1, ccd-2,... off.

Try turning off the text box function of the closed captioning.

This is a common problem, some how you have the closed caption on and turned to the text mode. So to fix this scoll through the tv's menu and find the closed caption and tur it back off

turn off the closed caption Sounds like it's in text mode

good luck
Sue, Hitone tv, Baldwin NY

1) Demo mode clears by holding vol up & chan up at the same time at the set front buttons. Or try menu & power.......

2) Black box is called a text box = part of closed-caption option.
Select CC to turn text box off.........

Note:Always provide Model # , Chassis # and age......
serial # not needed / helpful..........T.

You have CC (closed captioning) turned on and it is set to text mode.....Go to the menu on the remote use the right arrow and hilight "C.CAPT",use the down arrow to highlight "C.CAPT",use the right arrow and highlight "off" then exit button on remote.