Black boxes in the middle of the screen are text boxes. Text is a part of the closed captioning feature either on your television or your cable/set top box. You would press the closed captioning button on the remote repeatedly until it displays cc off or something similar. Captioning might also be active on your cable box/set top box. There is normally a hidden menu on the cable box and that is where closed captioning is. You have to turn the cable box off. Yes I did say turn the cable box off. Then press the menu button on it and then the hidden menu will pop up. Then navigate to closed captioning and choose disable.
Did you try the closed caption button? What you are describing is a form of cc.
SOURCE: Zenith TV has a big black box in the middle of the screen.
After reading other postings, we figured out that it was the caption box, went to menu and turned it off.
Thanks for the great site, we wouldn't have figured it out without it !
Jen
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Sounds like a closed caption box or a pip box, if not try all the buttons on the remote one by one and lastly try to reset to factory settings if the option is present in menu settings.
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check the closed captioning setting. I black box in the middle is one of the settings. Set CC to off.
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use your remote to go to your closed caption settings and shut off the 'text'.
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Sounds like closed caption text is turned on. Go to closed caption menu and shut off. Box should disappear.
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