Black rectangle box in lower middle of screen

Take your remote, go into menu, scroll down to captions, right arrow to 1,2,3,off, when cursor is over off press enter on the remote, that should clear the black box and give normal tv viewing.

Check your Closed Captioning settings in the menu. I would bet money you have the "Text" feature enabled. Change it to OFF and you should be all set. I hope this was of some assistance.

Hi,
Do you see same solid black box in all inputs or just in dvd picture?
If solid box appears only with dvd picture then its generated by dvd player, check dvd player Menu and turn off any subtitle settings.
And if solid black rectangular appears in all inputs of TV like cable etc then check Close Caption feature in TV and turn off CC function.
Hope this will solve your TV problem.
Thanks.

your closed caption system is turned onn to its TEXT FUNCTION use your remote to find the CC or closed caption option and turn it off and the block will go away . good luck

go into your menu and find closed caption, someone has accidently set the closed caption mode to text, when the on screen display of channel or volume goes away the box appears. turn off the closed caption feature or switch it to something other than "text" mode, and your box will go away.

Try and turn off the closed captioning. I had the same problem and it turned out that the closed captioning was on t1 instead of OFF. Hope this helps!!!!

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!

Turn off the text box function of the closed caption decoder on the tv.

I found this because I"m having the EXACT same problem with my DVD. Very frustrating that nothing works....

I had the same problem. A big black box in the middle of the screen that would temperarily go away if with the EDS button.
Go to the main menu and turn off closed captioning. It worked for me! :D