Question about Samsung LE26R73BDX 26 in. HD-Ready LCD Television

Need help Hi I have a Samsung HD digital TV ( LE26R73BDX )about a year old. Recently the DTV has stopped functioning. It only allows the use of channel 5. None of the controls work when I want to use DTV, not even D.MENU. So I can not reset the system at all. Somebody advised me to turn the TV on by pressing the buttons ?INFO, MENU, MUTE and POWER? in sequence and within 1.5 seconds in order to open the MENU screen, but it didn?t work. On the other hand the ordinary TV works perfect. Is there anything that I can do to resolve this problem? Yours Allen

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Anonymous Nov 03, 2007

Have the same problem my telly is 13 months old..... :-(
Move2Decaf Dec 02, 2007

Mine started doing this about a month ago intermitently. Would switch it off and on again and it was fine. However, starting to happen more and more often, and having longer periods when DTV is totally unavailable - and all associated menus can't be accessed.

Have reset everything during the periods I've got access, but still no good. Would appreciate any insight anyone might have...
Anonymous May 20, 2009

I had exactly the same problem but did just as toph-phillip instructed and bingo now all is OK

many many thanks

Graham

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Ensure the tv is in analogue mode, not dtv and turn it off. with the remote: press info then, menu, then mute then power. these buttons need to be pressed sequentially not all at the same time and in quick succession. a menu will appear on the tv. navigate to the reset option and press the left arrow key on the remote (or press the enter/ok button) the tv will reset itself and turn off. turn the tv back on & it'll re tune all its channels. DTV should be working again.

Posted on Mar 28, 2009

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