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Cockemamie Vizio HDTV's won't accept signal from antenna

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rivieraranch

I am pissed now. I bought an antenna suitable for HDTV and tried connecting it to the TV coaxial input of each of my Vizio HDTVs. Both of them displayed a "No Signal" message on the screen. This is way beyond ridiculous.

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RE: Cockemamie Vizio HDTV's won't accept signal from antenna - rivieraranch 09:27:31 04/18/10 (1)
I think I solved the problem by looking deep into the instructions going to the menu and searching the channels. I st up the bedroom TV and the reception is surprisingly good with a little $16.00 GE antenna from Home Depot.
- good to see you have it working [nt] - Joe Murphy Jr 16:23:15 04/19/10 (0)
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4 possibilities - Joe Murphy Jr 22:04:01 04/17/10 (6)
1. If it's a powered antenna, make sure it's turned on.

2. You may need to tell your televisions that they need to look for and tune to digital signals. In the televisions that I have seen, the default has always been analog and just about all OTA analog signals have been turned off.

3. You may be in an area where the only signals you will get are very directional. You may have to point the antenna in the direction of the signal's source to get anything.

4. It is possible that you live in an area which is too far from a source to get a signal. As an example, I can't get any OTA broadcasts in my area.
- RE: 4 possibilities - rivieraranch 05:50:10 04/18/10 (4)
  1. The antenna is not powered, just passive.
  2. The inputs are DTV so they have a coaxial input labeled DTV/Antenna
  3&4 I don't think I am far from the signal.
  
  Something wrong with these sets. There was a troubleshoot that called for pressing the input button on the TV remove several time but that did not work.
  - please list the model numbers - Joe Murphy Jr 07:37:33 04/18/10 (2)
    If there's a .pdf of the manuals, I'll give them a look when I have time.
    - RE: please list the model numbers - rivieraranch 08:25:57 04/18/10 (1)
      VU42L & VX32L
      - RE: please list the model numbers - HighEndWire 10:29:22 04/18/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: please list the model numbers posted by rivieraranch on April 18, 2010 at 08:25:57
        
        I have the same 42 inch model for a long time. Used it in the bedroom first and now it is in the kitchen (replaced an older Vizio 32 inch). It works fine and I've had nothing but an over-the-air antenna with it. When you hit the menu button and go to the TV icon (3rd one), I assume you have it set to antenna vs. cable?
  - RE: 4 possibilities - HighEndWire 06:31:41 04/18/10 (0)
    I have 3 Vizio TVs and never had a problem and know lots of others who have them. On the set-up menu, have you selected the appropriate signals (i.e. not cable)? Have you then scanned the channels after doing so? The TV sets that have analog tuners built in as well usually have set-up choices. If I press a channel on my remote on one of my Vizop TVs it shows no signal. For example if I press channel 7 it goes to the analog channel (and gets no signal) and I need to press the channel up button to go to the programmed DTV channel (which requires set-up as noted above).
- One More - cfraser 23:17:01 04/17/10 (0)
  5. Does it have an ATSC tuner? If not it'll only accept analog signals. Quite a lot of not-that-old TVs don't have one. Luckily it's easily and cheaply rectified...

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