Zenith Z27a11s inputs

Hey, i have heard of these being tricky. Some models you have to tune to channel 99 and then push channel up on the remote, others, just tune to chanel 00. let me know if it doesn't work, nvic

Hi,

I tried tuning to 00 and 01... no luck with either (the TV won't tune to those).

Tried 99, then channel up with no luck either.

The source selection should be in the menu and on the remote. Channel

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Hi Andy,

My remote looks like this:

I have no source selection entry in the menu. Only thing relating to channels is the auto channel finder for off air/cable, and a manual channel programmer (which doesn't allow me to add channel 0 or 1 - changes back after a couple of secs to the previous channel). If I click menu a second time, I get the video menu (coour, brightness, etc). A third press of menu clears it from the screen.

Cheers! Jon

Aha!

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ZENITH:

I think this might work on Goldstar TVs as well, since both Zenith and Goldstar are the same company, LG Electronics.

Hold the MENU button. The menu will come up and then after a few seconds will go away. Now let go of the MENU button and enter

You will get a service menu that varies widely depending on model, so I won't include a walkthrough here. The ones I tried were fairly self-explanatory.

Problem solved. Went into the service menu, poked around some and changed a setting named "C. Type" to 3 (likely anything from 2-5 would work - changing from 0 to 1 gave me stereo sound, then I got playing - set it to 5, etc). I also enabled the stereo/SAP (a default choice, I think, for the audio) and the audio mode setup option (was previously missing from the menu). While at it, I adjusted the picture size so things aren't running off the bottom, etc. Looks like a former owner went in there and screwed it up.

I'd be interested in a more thorough accounting of the service menu options. There are things in there like "3.58 T", "WhComp" (white compensation?), "6 Keys", "Scroll" and "5 Jacks" (which I couldn't seem to set) that I'm curious about.

After changing the options in the service menu, I had to rescan the channels before I could power the TV off.

I can't select 0 (or 1 or 2) to tune to the video input, but using the channel up/dn button lets me come round to it - makes me happy!

Thanks for replying to my original request folks - I appreciate the helpful thoughts.

I don't know how similar your model is to a B27a11z, but on this model it's selected by stepping down to chan 02 (or whatever the lowest channel you have programmed), then pressing channel down one more time.

It's basically between the lowest & highest channels programmed in memory so you'll get to the video input when you step above the highest or below the lowest programmed channel number.

Mike

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