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To Get free broadcasts you will need to 1) have an antenna and 2) run the Channel Scan or Auto-TUne program. Any antenna will work - Rabbit ears etc. Once connected you need to go to setup and run the channel scan - it will find the digital channels in your area and load them into the database. You can get an antenna at Radio Shack, Meijer, Kmart etc. any place they sell TV's. Like I said even the old Rabbit Ear antennas work fine for Digital TV.
You need to do a Full Factory Reset tuning rather than just a rescan.
Rescan simply looks at the place holders where the old channels were stored and refreshes them. A Factory Reset (A.K.A. Shipping Condition) wipes the channel memories and starts again fresh.
sometimes you can have weaker signal, and pictures freeze...
it can be caused by bad weather, by thunderstorms, heavy rain....
you can't do anything about it, just get stronger antena....it can improve your gain from signal, but never for 100%
your box has most likely lost communication with your providers server. most boxes these days download the program guide over the internet. so if you still have your channels (come from a cable)but have no guide info its probably because your box has lost the internet.
The commonest cause of this problem is tuning the set top box when the aerial lead has become disconnected or is plugged into the wrong socket (should be in the rf in or antenna socket) . As part of the normal tuning process, all previous tuning info is automatically deleted and with the aerial lead disconnected you will then end up with nothing. Make sure the lead is properly connected to the aerial and tune again.
Another possibility is to go into the main tuning menu and select return to factory condition. This will force a main reset deleting all data and you will then have to work through the whole tuning process from scratch including, setting your State, setting the tv resolution (720p, 1080i etc.) If neither of these options work, and you are certain that the box is connected to a good signal, then the box may be faulty. Good luck.
Often when using a Sky box, one doesn't use the channel tuning feature of the Polaroid HDTV. Often one connects the Sky box to a component video input, and the Sky box does the tuning.
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