I was watching my TV last night and the screen went to grey. I tried other channels and they appear with the station but the screen remains grey. I can get a picture through the DVD recorder and it records shows ok. any idea what is wrong? not sure if something on the Sony DVD has been pressed accidentally?

Unfortunately, this monitor/TV is not equipped with an ATSC (digital) tuner. It has an NTSC tuner. To watch over-the-air content, you'll need a converter box with either composite or RF out. See the specification sheet here: https://www.p4c.philips.com/files/1/15mf400t_37/15mf400t_37_pss_.pdf .

I hope this helps. The few low power stations that were able to continue broadcasting NTSC signals for a while after the digital switch either have lost or will soon lose their broadcast license.

Cindy Wells
(I know the low-power NTSC station in my area lost its FCC license last spring.)

If your philips tv keeps losing it's stations when you switch it off, this my be a solution -----my 42" tv would need to be retuned every time I wanted to watch it this fault just started over night it was all working fine then sat down to watch tv and had to retune tv from scratch I could then watch telly all night fine change channels no probs all great switch it off next day retune and so it went on if you have this problem switch telly on then hold in menu button on tv until screen goes black (this reboots software) then retune tv as normal it will ask if you want a full retune (yes) when this is complete digital and analogue your tv should now remember channels when switched off and work as it used to ----( Hope this helps you if you have had this problem it worked for me ). Good Luck

replace your backlight inverter and that should fix it.

sounds like someone rolled over on the remote. if you have cable or a dish, the tv channel must be left on a specific station at all times. no matter what channel is on the cable, the television itself must be on the correct channel number in order to receive he signal from the cable company. try hitting the last channel recall button on the tv, not the cable. otherwise try channel 3 or 4 or sometimes 60 on the tv. good luck

The problem with the black box happened to me. I had pushed the subtitle button on my remote by mistake. Interestingly enough, as soon as I pushed the SUBTITLE key again, on the remote, the black boxes disappeared.

It also says CC which means closed captioned-- So the bottom on my remote is Subtitle, and then on the subtitle button is cc...

I hope this helps

The black box is there because your closed captioning is on and set to text mode. Some channels send the signal even when there is no actual text to display. You can get rid of it by either turning off closed captioning or changing it to CC1 or CC2 mode instead of text. If you can't find those settings, then restore factory settings as directed in your user manual.

ysus pcb that supplies voltage to the panel is faulty

sounds like it may be a software upgrade

You are having a high voltage problem. Quite possibly in the horizontal deflection. I would check the horizontal output and regulator transistors.

Do you have a VCR or DVD recorder? If yes, set it to record what you are watching. After a "blackout" rewind the tape and review it. If there is a blackout on the tape, the problem is the sallite box, if not, it is the TV! QED