Re: Problems with Sony Bravia HDTV

midwest_46@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
: Hello. Recently, I bought a Sony HDTV. Specifically, I bought the
: following TV:

: 40-inch Bravia S Series LCD Flat Panel HDTV, model number KDL-40S3000

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: Here is how my TV-cable-VCR system is set up. My cable provider is
: Comcast, and I have only basic cable. Thus, my cable consists of
: nothing but a coaxial wire (coax, for short). The coax comes into the
: house and is plugged into the VCR's "in" slot. Another coax connects
: the VCR's "out" slot to the "cable" slot on the TV.

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: There have been a few problems with this system:

: 1) On the HDTV, the digital channels look good. However, the analog
: channels sometimes look good and sometimes look bad. By "bad", I mean
: that the channels are full of snow and are grainy.

: For example, channel 7 (the ABC station in Chicago) might look bad,
: but channel 7.2 (the corresponding digital channel) looks great.

: Also, the analog channels are inconsistent in their behavior. On some
: days, the analog channels will look bad; on other days, the analog
: channels will look good.

: So, why are the HDTV's analog channels looking bad? And why are the
: analog channels looking bad only sometimes?

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: 2) Another problem seems to be my VCR. This is a Sony VCR with an
: analog tuner (model number SLV-N750).

: The VCR is set to analog channel 4. Here in Chicago, channel 4 is also
: a Spanish channel in my cable lineup.

: One thing that sometimes happens is the following: I turn on the TV,
: and I turn on channel 4. The channel looks good. However, when I turn
: the VCR's power on, the channel starts looking snowy and grainy. Note
: that the snow happens when I simply turn the power on. I have not yet
: pressed the TV/video button on the VCR remote control in order to
: watch TV via the VCR tuner.

: So, why does turning on the VCR cause channel 4 to start looking bad?
: Is my VCR properly connected to the TV? Are my coaxial wires weak or
: malfunctioning?

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: 3) Another problem with the VCR is the following: Sometimes, when I
: play a recorded tape, the image is snowy and grainy. Sometimes, the
: image is good.

: Prior to the HDTV, the same coax that connects the VCR's "out" slot to
: the HDTV's "cable" slot also connected the VCR's "out" slot to my old
: analog TV's "cable" slot.
: The material on the tape was recorded when my VCR was connected to the
: analog TV (Mitsubishi brand), and the tape looked good on the analog
: TV.

: So, why does the image from the VCR tape look bad on the HDTV?

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: 4) When my VCR was connected to the analog TV, the analog TV *also*
: had some problems with snowy analog channels. However, in the case of
: the analog TV, the only analog channels that had problems were
: channels 2, 3, 4, and 5. These were the channels that were closest to
: channels 3 and 4, the VCR channels.

: On the HDTV, the analog-channel problems are not limited to just a few
: channels. On the HDTV, most or all of the analog channels experience
: snow and graininess.

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: 5) At one point, I was trying to watch the digital ABC channel, and
: the TV said "no signal". Hours later, the signal was there again.

: Also, our cable subscription is very basic, and we do not get channels
: like "Comedy Central" or "Cartoon Network". However, one day, I was
: scanning through the digital channels that we have, and I saw "Comedy
: Central" and "Cartoon Network". The next day, we again did not have
: these channels.

: So, what is going on with these signals? One day we have Comedy
: Central, and the next day we don't?

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: So, please give me some advice. I appreciate any info.

I do not understand how you are getting HD channels? The basic
Comcast has no digital channels, at least not in NJ. I use an
outside antenna for my HD channels and feed the basic Comcast
through the VCR into one of my AVI inputs. I then select the Comcast
channels with the VCR remote. It works great.
Cass
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