Black screen while watching a show, a black box appears and takes up half the screen

Your signal board is showing signs of old age. The signal board is the one with all the RCA, and RF connections. You will need to replace this board. If you know of an electronic enthusiast, have them pull out the existing board. They will have to check and replace capacitors as needed. Much of the problems facing flat screen TVs are bad capacitors. Thanks for asking and show all hands of support!

Hi, hit the cc button on your remote control untill the close caption display says off, this should eliminate the box from your screen

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!!!!

Make sure the TEXT and CAPTION options are turned off.

I am not sure about the Sonny's, but on my Toshiba a black box appears when I inadvertently leave one of the close captioning (CC) on for text or captions on (such as CC1, CC2, etc.).

It sounds like you have enabled Closed Captioning and the channel that you are watching does not have that info. There should be a way to turn it back off either directly with a button on the remote or throught the menus. Look for CC.

Dan

The box you're seeing is the "closed caption' box. You need to use the remote and disable CC mode on it, and the box will go away :)

This is a problem with closed-captioning. What you are seeing is a closed captioning box with no captioning in it. Usually this is being accidentally transmitted by the cable company "head end". Just make sure your closed captioning function is completely turned off. if you are seeing it randomly, it may well be coming from your cable company. Is it just on certain channels?

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

Problem solved! Thanks Panasonic Tech Support!!

In case anyone else has this problem, I'll tell you what I found out. This model DVD recorder does not have closed captioning functionality at all. So if this happens to yours, it is not the DVD recorder causing the problem. It is a setting on either your TV, cable box, or whatever else you have hooked up to it.

In my case, my daughter must have accidentally hit the "Text" option on our TV's caption menu. I changed that option back to its original setting, and the mysterious black box is gone.

turn off your CC or closed caption