Troubleshooting Guide - Sears LXI 934.44709990 Owner's Manual

TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE
PROBLEM
No power.
No picture and sound.
No picture or poor picture on
TV/VCR.
No sound or poor sound.
Timer recording is not possible.
Cannot go into Record mode.
Playback picture has some video
noise lines.
No picture but the audio is OK in
playback.
No operation by infrared Remote
Control.
Video or color fades in and out
when making a copy of a video tape.
CORRECTIVE ACTION
• Make sure the AC cord is connected to an AC outlet.
• Make sure the power is turned on.
• Make sure the AC cord is connected to an AC outlet.
• Check antenna connection.
• Perform channel set-up again.
• Adjust direction or replace antenna.
• Adjust picture controls.
• Adjust volume control on remote control or main unit.
• Press the MUTE button to restore sound.
• Make sure the timer recording is set correctly.
• Make sure the power is off.
• Make sure the TV/VCR clock is set correctly.
• Make sure the tape has an erase-prevention tab. If necessary,
cover the hole with plastic tape.
• Adjust tracking control for a better picture using the CHANNEL
• or • button on the TVNCR.
• Head cleaning may be necessary.
Refer to "HEAD CLEANING" on page 29.
• Make sure the AC cord is connected to an AC outlet.
• Check batteries in remote control.
• You can not copy a copyrighted video tape. You are
experiencing copy guard protection.
CLOSED-CAPTION
PROBLEM
rVNCR is showing captions that
are misspelled.
TVNCR will not show the text in
its entirety or there is a delay of
what is being said.
Captions are scrambled with
white boxes on the TV screen.
Program guide listed a rv show
as being closed-captioned but
none of the captions were
displayed.
Prerecordedvideotape does not
show any captions.The tape box
mentions it
being
clnsed-captioned.
TV screen shows a black box on
certain channels.
POSSIBLE REMEDY
• You are watchinga live broadcast and spellingerrors made by the
closed-captioning productioncompany may pass through
uncorrected.A prerecordedprogramwillnot show any misspelled
words because ofthe normal time available for editing the captions.
• Cap_ons that are detayed a few secondsbehindtheactual dialogue are
commonfor rNebroadcasts. Most captioning produc'don companies can
display dialogueto e maximum of 220 words per minute.If a dialogue
exceeds that rate,selec'&,e editing is used to insurethat the captions
remain up-to-datewith 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
speed up the actual program so that additional advertising
time can be given. Since the decoder cannot read the
compressed information, captions will be lost.
• The video tape was either an illegal copy or the tape
duplicating company accidentally left out the captioning signals
during the copying process.
• You are in the TEXT mode. Select CAPTION mode to
CAPTION [OFF].
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