Zenith TVSB1320 Operation Manual & Warranty page 30

TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE
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PROBLEM
No power.
No picture and sound.
No picture or poor picture on
CORRECTIVE ACTION
• Make sure the AC cord is connected t(, 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.
TV/VCR. • Adjust picture controls.
No sound
or
poor sound. , • Adjust volume control on remote controror main unit.
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[• Press the MUTE button to restore sound.
Timer recording is not possible. _• M_ theeti_ iss _ct_y.
Make sure the power is off.
Make sure the TV/VCR clock is set correctly.
j • 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
UP or DOWN button on the TV/VCR.
Cannot go into Record mode.
Playback picture has some video
noise lines.
No picture but the audio is OK in • Head cleaning may be necessary.
)layback. Refer to "HEAD CLEANING" on page 29.
No operation by infrared Remote • Make sure the AC cord is connected to an AC outlet.
Control. • Check batteries in remote control.
Video or color fades in and out • You can not cgpy a copyrighted video tape, You are
when making a copy of a video tape. experiencing copy guard protection.
POSSIBLE REMEDY
CLOSED-CAPTION
PROBLEM
TV/VCR is showing captions that
are misspelled,
TV/VCR will not show the text in
its entirety or there is a delay of
what is being said.
• 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
editin_gthe captions.
• Captions that are delayed a few seconds behind the actual
dialogue are common for live broadcasts. Most captioning
production companie_.:_n display dialogue to a maximum of
220 words per minut'_ 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. "
Captions are scrambled with _ • In_-erfe_enence cau_eedby_bui_ng_, powwer/_nnes__s,
white boxes on the TV screen. _ etc. may cause scrambled or incomplete captions to appear.
Program guide listed a TV show • Broadcasters may at times use a time compression process to
as being closed-captioned but speed up the actual program so that additional advertising
none of the captions were time can be given. Since the decoder cannot read the
displayed, compressed information, captions will be lost.
Prerecorded video tape does not • The video tape was either an illegal copy or the tape
show any captions. The tape box duplicating company accidentally left out the captioning signals
mentionsit pe!ng cl0sed-captioned, , du[!n 9 the copy!ng process. ....
TV screen shows a black box on ,* You are in the TEXT mode. Select CAPTION mode to
certain channels. CAPTION [OFF].
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