How to disable the tuner/TV source? I bought this model strictly to use as a monitor for external sources: computers, game systems, movie players, etcet. I've no interest in watching television nor hooking up an antenna.Has anyone figured out how to disable the built-in tuner as an active source? When I toggle through the various inputs I've connected, the big useless screen of static just gets in the way, and looks unfinished to boot. How to disable the tuner/TV source? I bought this model strictly to use as a monitor for external sources: computers, game systems, movie players, etcet. I've no interest in watching... » Read More How to disable the tuner/TV source? I bought this model strictly to use as a monitor for external sources: computers, game systems, movie players, etcet. I've no interest in watching television nor hooking up an antenna.Has anyone figured out how to disable the built-in tuner as an active source? When I toggle through the various inputs I've connected, the big useless screen of static just gets in the way, and looks unfinished to boot. « Show Less
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OMG... I've been looking all over for information like this myself. Seems to be an alien concept.I don't want a TV signal in my house, cable or otherwise. But I'd love to watch movies conveniently. If I knew I could disable the tuner source, I'd buy a nice TV in a heartbeat. Conversely, if I knew I could easily hook up a variety of movie sources to, say, an LCD monitor, I'd do that. But I can't find clear info on either configuration.
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Most television broadcasting is rubbish. Why don't reputable television manufacturers produce a good quality monitor solely for replaying DVDs?
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You can't take it out of the choices but you can turn on the "blue screen" so that when it goes to that input you get silence and blue screen instead of snow and audio noise...when in the tuner mode pop up the menu and go to "input"...select blue screen = "on."
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Hi Michael - I don't actually have an antenna in my TVs - using them purely as monitors for my computer. I just enabled PIP and it came up - and said 'no signal' which would indicate I think that if I'd got antenna connected indeed you would be able to watch TV whilst looking at your computer...hope that helps.
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Use external speakers is an option and turn the tv off while keeping pandora on. But yeah using the tv as a monitor with pandora is not too safe. Use the pixel orbiter at max speed (every 1 minute).
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Jordan: Thanks for taking the time to reply: I must admit I knew NONE of the things U mentioned. I think I may try to find a calibration disk, or wud setting up my TV via the THX method set it for all input sources?
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I love this TV. It was a purchase of a lifetime for me. However, I NEVER could get the guide working properly. My cable system has it's own guide system, but sometime, I just want to watch just the TV, and use their guide. It keeps telling me that the guide is downloading overnight, but the next day, there is still NO guide information on the screen. If you got yours working, please tell me how you did it. Thanks "Emil"
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I am looking into this product, also. Do I need a tuner? I have Directv with goes directly into tv. If I want to watch on dvd on my current player, I have to hit source on the tv. Would I be able to record tv this way? Nothing has explained if a tuner only works with cable and not directv.
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Some of these models do, some do not and further, some do but it is disabled in a hidden menu. Sorry I cannot be more specific, but I purchased the 50" model and it completely lacked the tuner. Reading some Google search results showed me the answer I gave to you.
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Hello Gail, I bought mine several years ago for my wife. She uses it at work and to this day she has yet to have any problems with it. She watches it everyday at work during lunch. My suggestion is to make sure you have it on the right settings for watching TV,DVD,and aux input, if you try all those and the picture still doesn't work then you may need to send it in to Coby. The only other thing that I may say is the region setting may be off but, only if the picture doesn't work for the DVD only, if you aren't getting any picture on any of the input methods there may be some internal malfunction going on. Hope this helps. Hello Gail, I bought mine several years ago for my wife. She uses it at work and to this day she has yet to have any problems with it. She watches it everyday at work during lunch. My suggestion is to make sure you have it on the right settings for watching TV,DVD,and aux input, if you try all those and the picture still doesn't work then you may need to send it in to Coby. The only other thing that I may say is the region setting may be off but, only if the picture doesn't work for the DVD only, if you aren't getting any picture on any of the input methods there may be some internal... » Read More Hello Gail, I bought mine several years ago for my wife. She uses it at work and to this day she has yet to have any problems with it. She watches it everyday at work during lunch. My suggestion is to make sure you have it on the right settings for watching TV,DVD,and aux input, if you try all those and the picture still doesn't work then you may need to send it in to Coby. The only other thing that I may say is the region setting may be off but, only if the picture doesn't work for the DVD only, if you aren't getting any picture on any of the input methods there may be some internal malfunction going on. Hope this helps. « Show Less
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Here's my lo-tech response: The tuner takes a digital over-the-air (OTA) TV signal and sends it to a TV that is not equipped with a digital tuner. Usually, a digital antenna is connected to the tuner and then the tuner is connected to the TV. Most SMART TVs these days have a built in digital tuner, so this tuner is often used with older TVs that don't have a built in tuner. In my case, I use this tuner to grab over the air HD TV signals and connect the tuner to a projector for showing outdoor sports games. If you do this, you will also likely need an AV receiver as a middle device for sound. Hope this helps. Here's my lo-tech response: The tuner takes a digital over-the-air (OTA) TV signal and sends it to a TV that is not equipped with a digital tuner. Usually, a digital antenna is connected to the tuner and then the tuner is connected to the TV. Most SMART TVs these days have a built in digital tuner, so this tuner is often used with older TVs that don't have a built in tuner. In my case, I use this tuner to grab over the air HD TV signals and connect the tuner to a projector for showing outdoor sports games. If you do this, you will also likely need an AV receiver as a middle device for... » Read More Here's my lo-tech response: The tuner takes a digital over-the-air (OTA) TV signal and sends it to a TV that is not equipped with a digital tuner. Usually, a digital antenna is connected to the tuner and then the tuner is connected to the TV. Most SMART TVs these days have a built in digital tuner, so this tuner is often used with older TVs that don't have a built in tuner. In my case, I use this tuner to grab over the air HD TV signals and connect the tuner to a projector for showing outdoor sports games. If you do this, you will also likely need an AV receiver as a middle device for sound. Hope this helps. « Show Less
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Lucy,I found the source of my hum. I have Direct TV HD. I found that going into the menu settings/Audio/Sound Effects and turning that option off, I was able to rid myself of the annoying hum. The option has something to do with keeping the audio settings from channel to channel, while it is changing you hear dead air except for the hum. Nice and quit now. Love this receiver!Larry
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I'm interested to know how to do it too. There is a search mode button (labeled in white - so it is from source) - but it does not work when the "high-end" receiver in a TUNER mode. Not to mention, that there is no way to navigate internet radio without TV on. Please update this post when you hear from Yamaha.
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I've had the unit for several years with no problems. However, when you switch functions from TV/ Cable to DVD it automatically switches the audio source for you. But, when you switch back, you have to manually reset the Function to TV / Cable. Hope that's all your problem is.
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usni, have you bought it? I'm looking for a TV tuner that can record TV and where I can convert the video to different formats for my mobile devices and was wondering if this does that.Thanks :)
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Can I use this as a regular TV with the analog to digital convertor I bought in order to get my local antenna TV stations? Do I need special cables or a cable or satellite input? If this is widescreen (?) do I have to adapt (including wife's possible comments!!) to a different picture configuration that we are used to? Thanks a lot for any help and comments.
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You can only turn it off with the switch in the back off it, and sometimes that wont turn it off. You may even have to unplug it to turn it off. It has a faux shutoff button on screen but it only turns the video off to make the appearance that the system is off, but in actuality it only turns off the display to the TV.
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Where would I look in the manual to find out. What steps do you do to change that setting on your tv, so I can see if my tv will do that. My tv is a fairly new Sharp Aquos.
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Thanks for the clarification re: nothing different re: 750 with that feature..but if you could please explain-what do you mean that any tv could do that (the nexflix movie from computer monitor to the tv...with an external box..?? What external box? Sorry, I lost some part of that..thanks in advance for helping me understand that..