Scan for available TV stations - how to - Philips 25PS40S 25" TV

When you push the auto scan button on a radio tuner, the tuner will automatically scan through the available frequencies (also known as a "band") and stop on any station that it finds. The radio will then display the frequency or channel of the station and allow you to listen to the broadcast. The process of auto scanning can vary depending on the specific model of radio tuner that you are using, but in general it is a quick and easy way to find all of the available stations in a particular band. Some radio tuners may also allow you to save the stations that you find during the auto scan process, so that you can easily access them in the future without having to rescan.

FM radio settings
Note: You can only see the FM radio settings when you have selected ‘FM’ as the radio source.
FM stereo option
You can choose between stereo or mono reception when listening to FM radio. Mono may improve
clarity where stereo signals are weak.
To change between Stereo or Mono reception:
1. Press the Menu button.
2. Turn and press the Select dial to choose ‘Audio Setting’.
3. Select between ‘Stereo Allowed’ or ‘Forced Mono’.
FM scan
You can choose whether your Elan E3 automatically stops at the next available FM station or the next
available FM station with a strong signal when scanning for an FM station. To change the FM scan
setting:
1. Press the Menu button.
2. Turn and press the Select dial to choose ‘Scan Setting’.
3. Select between ‘Strong Stations Only’ or ‘All Stations’.

DAB settings
Note: You can only see the DAB settings when you have selected ‘DAB’ as the radio source.
Full scan
You can use the ‘Full Scan’ (autotune) function to automatically scan for new digital radio stations and
remove inactive ones.
To carry out an autotune:
1. Press the Menu button.
2. Turn and press the Select dial to choose ‘Full Scan’.The number of stations found will be
displayed during the autotune.
When the autotune has finished, your Elan E3 will tune to the last station that you were listening to. If the
last station you were listening to is no longer available, your Elan E3 will tune into the first station in the
alphabetical list.
Manual tuning
To manually check the signal strength of a known channel:
1. Press the Menu button.
2. Turn and press the Select dial to choose ‘Manual tune’.
3. Turn and press the Select dial to choose the channels.

The Quasar VV-2002 only has an NTSC (analog tuner). Very few stations with NTSC transmitters are still broadcasting. Only low-power stations were allowed to continue broadcasting an analog signal. Unless you are very close to one of the transmitters, your TV will not tune in the station.

You'll need to connect the TV to a digital-to-analog over the air converter box. (The low-end ones that were free or cheap with the government coupon are harder to find; a few models are still available.) These convert the ATSC (digital) signal to NTSC. Then use an appropriate antenna and follow the instructions to tune in the available OTA signals. Send these to the TV either on the RF or composite Line-in. Set the TV to the appropriate input and use the converter box to change channels.

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells
(20" TVs weren't required to have an ATSC tuner until 2007. Since there are reviews for the VV-2002 from 2004, it obviously is an older set.)

If it is fairly new it should be able to scan for Digital Stations. Connect it to an antenna that you know works on another TV and you can go to www.TVFOOL.com and it will tell you what stations are available at your address and what type of antenna is needed.

Do a retune to this TV.

Press MENU button on the remote control and select
Install and Retune by using Left or Right button.
Press OK button and the following menu screen
will be displayed

Select Automatic Channel Scan (Retune) by using
Up or Down button and press OK button. Automatic
Channel Scan options will be displayed. You can select
options by using Up or Down and OK buttons.

Auto Channel Scan Menu Operation
Digital: Searches and stores aerial DVB stations.
Analogue: Searches and stores analogue stations.
Full: Searches and stores both analogue and aerial
DVB stations.

Whenever you select an automatic search type and
press OK button, a confi rmation screen will appear
on the screen. To start installation process, select
Yes, to cancel select No by using Left or Right
and OK button.

After auto channel scan type is set and selected
and confi rmed, installation process will start and
progress bar will move along. Press MENU button
to cancel process. In such a case, located channels
are not stored. The television will start to search for
all available stations. You must allow the television
to complete the search.

You need have the television scan for new channels since you have moved. I'm assuming that you don't have cable. It the television set up menu, there should be an option to have the tuner scan for available channels. After this is done you should be able to receive the digital channels that are being broadcast from your local stations.

Prior TV sets acquired available signals discoverable on channal transmission from various broadcast stations. Soon after the TV was powered on, the remote control was required to browse to acquire an display. The feature functionalities of preserving signals are unchievable without subscription establishements that provided the signals. Howver, prior TVs could retain the features of acquirng signal so long as the set was powered on. Recent TV were designed to suit the feature deffects. For example, recent TVs have auto scan a button feature that acquires momentarily every available signal broadcasting station placed on standy for display on powering on the device.

The TV user guide should provide the procedures of acquiring auto scan. For example, your TV may be acquiring functionality from satellites dishs or cable receiver devices. Performing an auto scan achievable with the remote control device with adjustment to settings on the channel buttons would produce a signal only with available transmitter stations. Performing a channel auto scan would display no signals without available receiver devices often acquired with susbscription from a provder either cable TV, sattelite or disk network, show on demand for example. However, performing an auto scan on a new Tv should simply display a count list of possible available channels on which signals could be display when any is provided. Good luck

go to main menu, than find a setting for "autoprogramming" It will scan all available channels.

What you need to do is take the remote, go into the menu, find channel scan and do a channel scan to find all the available stations available on this system. Make sure the TV set is in the cable mode and not antenna mode or you wont get any stations above channel 13.