Out of the blue a large black box shows up in the middle of the screen. It is a perfect rectangle and takes up about 80% of the screen. When you move the volume button or change a channel it goes away but comes right back. Used to be able to get to HD channels and it would not happen, now it happens on all channels regardless of the input, DVD, Cable box, direct cable.
When a black box appears on the screen it means that your closed captions are on and set to TEXT. When the closed captions are set to CC1, it puts the words on the screen and when set to TEXT it puts a black box in the center of the screen. Go into the set's menu, navigate to the closed captions page and set the captions to OFF.
Thank you so much for your help! That black box always appears on the screen when my dad watches TV. I was about to call my dish to get the problem solved, but I decided to first look it up online. In seconds, I understood the problem and fixed it. Once again, thanks.
Thank you so much!!! Turn off Closed Captions everyone in the whole wide world!
Turning off the closed captions worked
Awesome. Changing closed capture from TEXT to CC1 did the trick. THANK YOU!
I was having the same problem when my sons were trying to play XBOX, big rectangular black box - your recommendation fixed what was sure to be a long, drawn out troubleshooting process. Thanks!
I also, for months thought it was the provider or hd thing, was about to hook up a converter box as a last "hope" w/ time to spare, then thought of "google"! Thanks to both:)
That is what it is. disable your C.C. and works like new.
Again, I am as grateful as everyone else!!!! After 3 years of on and off black box it is GONE!!!!!! THANKS
Problem for Hitachi 53 in. Rear Projection Television
my tv i have had for 8 yrs all of a sudden it started to make a blurr vision of red it like red blur that make the station look like 3 d any clue what part is bad please email to [email protected] thanks
Finally the BLACK BOX OF AGONY is GONE!!!! Thank you for the advice! At first I thought it was our cable provider that was making these caption BOX show up... then after reading the forum I realized it was the TV itself and not our provider. Thank you.
Thanks for the help! This ended a lot of frustration
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You have your TV in the "Teletext" mode. Go into the TV menu and select the closed-captioning menu and turn off the text function. What you are seeing is the result of the TV's captioning circuit latching onto a false text pilot signal and then throwing up the black box on the screen.
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Nailed it on the head. Obviously knows his stuff. Thanks a lot for your help.
I have read everywhere that the black square box in my tv is due to closed captions, and i should disable it in order to get rid of such square.
I want to be able to use close caption!!! is there a way to have closed captions without that square?
My tv is hooked up to the cable boc via composite video so the closed captions setting are in the cable box since my tv disables closed caption when using composite input.
need help ASAP i've tried everything
hey mine problem seems to be close to this one I have a large black area up to last 10 inches of upper screen. I'm going to have to download the menu settings to do this blind I only see the first menu option. I hope this fixes it I'll post if it does but if it's something else please post suggestions
We have a 57UWX20B manufactured Nov 2002. The black box centered on screen problem was random, and rare, with Comcast as a provider. The box would suddenly appear for now apparent reason. Changing the volume made the box go away for about 15 seconds. This would last a day or so and then the problem would go away for weeks. We just switched to AT&T U-verse service and now the box is constant -- we can't WATCH our TV! Changing the volume solves the problem for just a few seconds. A second TV (different manufacturer and the old 'tube' kind) works fine so it isn't the provider.
there is a large black box that appears in the middle of the screen. we've gone through every menu option, but nothing works. please help
I have a black box showing up in the upper right hand corner of my tv
For us it was the closed captioning. Took it off & box disappeared. Thanks!
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