I got this set in from a guy who bought it in Italy. It had unstable vertical. I did some resoldering on the chip and around the HOT just for good measure and it looks great now however I can't seem to figure out how to autoprogam it for US NTSC channel allocations. It has two front panel buttons which I've never seen before. One is marked "color system" which gives you the options of: Auto, Pal, Secam, NTSC 3.58, and NTSC 4.43. The other button is marked: "TV system". It has the options: I, B/G, D/K, and M. I've tried the combination of auto on the color and M on the system and athough channel programming does take place the channels do not seem to program where they should. The VHF channels are off and the UHF ones program up to around channel 32 or so picking up all the UHF and assigning them arbitrarily it seems between channels 14 and 32. I've tried different cominations of systems and even the NTSC3.58 color setting but there is no difference. A call to Sony was useless as well. They suggested I call Sony in Italy! That would be an interesting conversation as all I can say in Italian is Pizza. The guy uses a cable box so all he really needs is channel three but right now channel 2 comes in on channel one and channel three comes in on two. Does anyone know if this set should properly autoprogram when used on an antenna in the US? And if so how do I do this? Thanks very much. Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics.
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19 years ago