I am not on cable. The Broksonice tv I have does not have a remote. There is no menu button on the tv. I have a Phillips HD indoor antenna with black box and remote. It does not respond to the Broksonic tv; only snow on the screen. How can I get local Louisville channels without subscribing to cable?

go to TV menu and find the auto program feature and run it and wait until its finished. Yes connect the antenna directly to the coax connection on the TV

Attach the antenna to the antenna/TV input on the back of the TV. If you have a flat twin lead wire on your antenna, you'll need a co-ax converter. (Best buy, etc.) Power on the TV (and the amplified antenna) and use the Input button on the remote to select the TV input. Next use the menu button to select channels and then engage the auto-search option to memorize all of the available channels in your area.

Let's assume this is a digital TV, not one of the old analog home theaters. First hook up the antenna. Then go into the TV's setup menu. These vary by model in their choices and the names they use. Find the section of the menu that deals with "input" or "home." You're looking for a choice of "cable" and "antenna." Choose "antenna." There will also be a selection that tells the TV to "scan" for channels. That's what you want it to do. Typically this takes anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. Once the TV has found all the channels available, you can exit the menu. From then on it's a simple matter of using your remote to choose the input you want to watch at that time: TV (from the antenna); Cable (if you have a box plugged into another input); DVD etc.

A note on antennas: indoor ones tend to have VERY limited range. They will get reliable reception only on local stations with high-power transmitters. My brother lives in Maine, miles away from the nearest tower, and his indoor got just one station consistently, but with lots of dropouts. A $35 outdoor one got four, three of which were reliable. He bought a better one for about $90 and now he gets 7 or 8, all but one of them consistently.

Yes you can use an indoor antenna. Just make sure it is an HD antenna to get the digital channels clearly. You will have to do a scan to pick up local channels. In the TV menu, it will ask you if you want to scan for "cable" channels or "antenna" channels. You want to choose antenna.

good luck as almost impossible without the remote to do much with this set, the manual you might be able to google.

If the antenna is working and you are not receiving a signal, then you could have a bad tuner, use a tuner from a VCR , connect the ant to the VCR and go from the VCR with Video cables and go to the Video input on the TV and put your TV in Video mode. That will work.

walmart, universal remotes from $7.00 and up, the problem should be that channels up to 3 were blocked and you need to re program channel search on menu, cable or antenna option and then, locate channels with signal, if you watch tv from cable, the channels search only detected the channel 3 as a channel with signal, if the tv is not hdefinition, you wont need more channels, if it is hd, there is an option for dvd, antena (hd signal of course) and hdm or whatever signals capability, I hope I helped you, othewise, contact me and I will be more than happy to help, God bless

no you need to use remote control

You will have to run the Autoprogram menu function from the menu. Here are the steps

Press the MENU button on the remote control.
Use the cursor down to select Installation in the Settings menu.
Use the cursor right to enter the Installation menu.
Select Autoprogram in the Installation menu.
Use the cursor right to enter the Autoprogram menu.
Press the OK button.
Select Cable or Antenna in the Installation mode.
When Antenna is selected, the TV will detect antenna signals and will search for antenna TV (NTSC and ATSC) channels available in your local area.
When Cable is selected, the TV will detect cable company supplied signals and will search for cable TV (NTSC,ATSC, QAM modulated) channels available in your area.
Make sure that registration with your cable TV provider and connection of equipment are completed.
Press the green button “Next” on the remote control.
Press the green button “Start” to start autoprogramming.
The menu screen disappears and the progress of autoprogramming is displayed.The progress bar indicates the number of analog and digital TV channels found. (Also digital channels via CableCARD are being programmed.
When Autoprogramming is complete, a message appears confirming the completion and the TV switches to the first installed TV channel.

You would need to purchase a universal remote, and once you program the universal you would be able to change from cable to antenna or vice versa.

Although there is a slim chance that in the setup screens on your TV (if you can access them by pushing a button on the tv) would have a selection where you could change the 'input' that is selected. If that is not an option, then it is definitely time for a universal remote.