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My dad recently bought a 32 inch Panasonic Viera HDTV (model # TC-L32C22) to replace his 15 year-old tube TV that finally went out. He has a VCR and DVD player connected to it, both using composite (red-white-yellow) cable connectors. The DVD player works fine, but the Sony VCR (model # SLV-N500) is causing some problems. It plays tapes O.K., but while playing a tape if you hit the fast-forward or rewind buttons the screen on the TV goes blank. After you take your finger off the button and the tape starts playing, the screen turns back on again. I also noticed that the screen turns off whenever there is blank tape being played, instead of showing static on the screen. I tried hooking up another VCR made by RCA, and got exactly the same results with the screen going blank during fast-forward and rewind. These VCRs both worked fine with other TVs, so I think that the problem lies with the new Panasonic TV.
Panasonic customer service wasn't able to help with this, and didn't know of any settings on the TV that could be changed to stop the screen from going blank. Has anyone else run into this problem, and more importantly know how to fix it? Thanks.
Panasonic customer service wasn't able to help with this, and didn't know of any settings on the TV that could be changed to stop the screen from going blank. Has anyone else run into this problem, and more importantly know how to fix it? Thanks.