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Posted on Jun 20, 2009

I have a 32" Toshiba 32AV500U 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTV along with a HDTVi VHF/UHF HDTV Indoor Antenna. I purchased the TV and antenna about a year ago. I am unable to get any digital TV, only analog. I was told that I should do a hard reset but what does this mean and will this work? I would like to get digital TV.

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Look in your manual for a channel scan entry. It should be an item in your setup menu. What this does is re-scan for all the signals it can receive.
Once the scan is done, it should display all the channels that are viewable in your area

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