I just moved to an apartment with cable. I brought with me my tv from my old house that was connected to a cable box. At the new place when I hooked up the cable and did the channel search, I ended up with only 13 channels. The landlord brought in her (older) tv to see if it was the cable itself and she had no problem getting all 80 channels. So now we are stumped, is there some sort of reset that my tv can try and pick up all the channels available thru the cable? It tries to find channels 14-79 but the come up as static. Any help would be appreciated!
2007-10-01 16:51:16 · 5 answers · asked by Me A 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
It sounds like your TV is set to receive over-the-air signals rather than cable. When you use a cable box this wouldn't matter, but with a direct cable connection it has to be set to use a cable input.
Go into the TV's menu system and make sure that the TV is set to cable service and not antenna.
If this isn't the case, edit your question to include the make & model of your TV.
2007-10-01 17:08:50 · answer #1 · answered by Stephen P 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
2 ideas... that is old enough TV to not be cable ready, but it may have a switch on the back to cause the tuner to go from 13 VHF channels to the higher cable channels, so try that first. Secondly (and better way to go) get a cable ready VCR and use it's tuner to get all the cable channels your cable supplies. All you have to do is hook the cable to the VCR, use a short cable from the VCR to the TV (all antenna connections) and put your TV on channel 3 and set the VCR in the TV mode.
2007-10-01 17:10:53 · answer #2 · answered by Dusty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the menu on your tv or see if there is a switch to change the setting from tv to cable. That should fix it.
2007-10-01 17:14:27 · answer #3 · answered by buddhaboy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
examine all your Connectors to confirm they're stable and sound. examine your cable getting used for any nicks, cuts, or kinks. If that one and all looks stable, that is beneficial to objective yet another / new splitter! I choose you and yours properly!
2016-11-07 00:29:41 · answer #4 · answered by du 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-10-01 17:10:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋