I can't get the blackout on the tv at certain times. therea a big black square blocking the picture and I can't get rid of it

Hi Tony

You`ve mentioned that ON CERTAIN CHANNELS THE TV WORKS FINE, so your trying to say that not all channels THE BLACK SQUARE APPEARS IN THE MIDDLE O THE SCREEN... my be that black square is generated from the broadcast center. may be your unit is good. let me ask you how many channels that your tv works fine..?

Set would seem to be either in PIP (picture in picture multiple mode) or the black box might be the TEXT feature which is found in the closed caption menu.

what model machine. When did the black square decide to appear on the unit

Buy a new TV. Really. Its a Disposable 19" TV.


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shut off the closed captioning

first thing to check is to see if closed caption is turn of

It turns out that the Closed Caption option was turned on somehow. When I turned that off the Black Square went a way and did not return.

I have a Sharp Tv that had the same problem with a large brownish or black square right in the middle of the screen. It only left about an inch around the edges that you
could see the picture moving in behind the big black block or square.I have DISH sat-elite and the book recomending that I check and see if the "caption settings" were on
or off. They were on. I turned the caption settings off and the large square diappeared.

Your closed captions are on and set to TEXT. Go into the menu, turn off the closed captions and the black box will vanish.

if your big black square starts about the middle of the tv & goes down close to the bottom, you have closed caption text turned on. normal closed caption is small, but test caption, is just a big black box with no writing in it. go into your menu & shut it off, it could even be a button on your remote called, "caption", or "cc". good luck.