Symphonic ST4813 Owner's Manual - Page 6
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TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE Sometimes a performance problem can be easily solved by checking seemingly apparent but often overlooked possibilities. Before arranging for service, check these items. It could save your time and money. I PROBLEM Remote Control Doesn't Work QUICK SERVICE CHECK LIST Picture Blurred Ghosts in picture Weak Picture No Color Picture Distorted Bars On Screen POSSIBLE REMEDY Try a new channel, if OK, then possible station trouble. X XXX X X XX Is TV plugged in? Power at outlet? X Is TV's POWER button on? Is antenna connected to terminal on the back of the set? X X X X If outside antenna is being used, check for broken wire. Check for local interference. Turn off with POWER button and then turn it on after about a minute. X X XXX XXXX X X X X X Adjust COLOR control. Adjust CONTRAST & BRIGHT control. Check batteries in Remote Control. X X X XX X X X X X X X X X X X Picture Rolls Vertically Poor Reception on Some Channels Lines or Streaks in Picture Sound OK, Picture Poor Picture OK, Sound Poor No Picture or Sound Closed Caption Problem My TV is showing captions that are misspelled. My TV will not show the text in its entirety or there is a delay of what is being said. My captions are scrambled with white boxes on the TV screen. My program guide listed a TV show as being closed captioned but none of the captions were displayed. My prerecorded videotape does not show any captions. The tape box mentions it being closed captioned. My TV screen shows a black box on certain channels. Possible Remedy You are watching a live broadcast and spelling errors made by the closed captioning production company may pass through uncorrected. A prerecorded program will not show any misspelled words because of the normal time available for editing the captions. Captions that are delayed a few seconds behind the actual dialogue are common for live broadcasts. Most captioning production companies can display a dialogue to a maximum of 220 words per minute. If a dialogue exceeds that rate, selective editing is used to insure that the captions remain up-to-date with the current TV screen dialogue. Interference caused by building, power lines, thunderstorms, etc. may cause scrambled or incomplete captions to appear. Broadcasters may at times use a time compression process to the actual program so that additional advertising time can be given. Since the decoder cannot read the compressed information, captions will be lost. The videotape was either an illegal copying or the tape duplicating company accidentally left out the captioning signals during the copying process. You are in the TEXT mode. Select CAPTION mode or CAPTION [OFF].