Phillips TV does not hold default channel

ms ha escrito:

if you turn it off into standby with the remote, it should probably switch on with the last channel watched. If however the hard on-off switch on the set was used then it will revert to the forst channel tuned in. in your case 2.

-b

Should come back on with the channel it was shut off with unless you unplug it or lose your power otherwise so no it's not normal.

Very common for the backup battery to fail on old Philips sets. Just replace it.

Arfa

"Arfa Daily" wrote in news:iYjdi.277$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net:

There is a battery to retain the prevous channel setting?

I doubt my 1985 Toshiba has a battery.

ms

b wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

No remote, so a hard off each time. Basically same with my 1985 Toshiba, no standby, the Dish Network remote was used for power off. And it kept it's channel setting.

ms

innews:iYjdi.277$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net:

many sets of that era used either a battery (if I recall philips were usually 2.4v 110 mAh ) or a low voltage capacitor with a very high capacitance value. this served to feed the micro when set was off, and thus retain the channel presets, user preferences for colour, brightness, vol/tone (sound) etc.

-b-

Is that in a place where Joe Blow can find it?

Make sure that the TV's AC cord is plugged directly to the main outlet, and not through the decoder box (dish box).

Many models of TV sets, when switched off, if they loose the AC supply, the default user memory will be re-set to the default.

If the TV set is being used properly, it is possible that there is a defect with the internal memory of the TV set in the area that works with the user set-up. In this case, the set will have to be serviced. Some sets use an internal battery, while some other's use an internal memory built in to one of the microcontroler chips. If the fault is not directly from a memory battery, then servicing the set can get fairly involved.

Been a long time since I did one, but as I recall it was, as b said above, a

Arfa

Wonder how good with a screwdriver the OP is? Most are not going to bother looking but yah never know :)

"JANA" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

We will shortly go off Dish Network, just use a roof antenna, then with only 5 local channels, changing the channel manually will be no problem. And with so little to watch, I usually only watch the PBS channel anyway.

ms

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Arfa