Black square in the middle of my viewing screen.

I have a large black square in the middle of my viewing screen. The broadcast I can see going on behind this black square. It seems to go away during commercials. Sometimes it carries on all channels and both antennas. I have a tivo, Dvd player, Cable box, Hdtv cable box connected to the tv. I've had all this working for years now. I think I must had hit a button on the remote or something. Any ideas?

Anonymous Mar 12, 2014

I am trying to connect up a digi set top box to this T.V but there appears to be no way to connect a normal aeiral cable into this T.V. The connection hole on the T.V looks to be square, and of course the cale is round, please help a total idiot like me.

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You have accendly turned on closed caption. the closed caption you have tured on is not the normal closed caption we are used to . it is called colsed caption text. either on your remote or in you manu, find the way to turn off cc & you should work ok. good luck.

Posted on Jan 10, 2007

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