I am not sure this is the correct forum, but any help would be appreciated.I recently purchased a Magnavox 2160 and had it connected and working here at home.I have sent it to school with my daughter to use at college and she can not get her tv to setup properly.She has a Toshiba 19LV610U its a 19inch Lcd flat screen with built in dvd player.She is over 3 hours away and I feel helpless not knowing what to tell her how to setup the tv.Does anyone have this combination that could tell me, what the tv should be set on to view the magnavox dvd recorder.
She has a cable connection with no cable box, she has been using the tv's tuner to change channels.I have told her to connect the coax to the ant in on the 2160 and then from there we have composite cables going from the 2160 to her toshiba tv.I have told her to select video as the input on the Tv, but we can not find a channel that will dsiplay the 2160 output.

Thanks for any help

Two things:

1. She should select an "Input" on the TV that's got the composite cables connected. It might be a button named "AV" or similar.

2. Also, as important as selecting the correct TV input, make sure she has Video > Progressive Scan OFF... if it's on, there will be NO output from the Composite connection from the 2160.

Ok I think that must be the problem, I did not send her a pass through cable to connect from the 2160 ant out back to the tv ant in. I thought that it was redundant. Shame on me.Now how can she without that connection view the menu settings to change the progressive scan to off.

Again thanks for the help.

I don't see how she's changing channels on the TV if she doesn't have a coax from the 2160 ANT OUT to the TV ANT IN?

She needs that to tune channels directly on the TV, independent from the 2160.

The Composite out from the 2160 should be installed on one of the TV's Y/W/R inputs, and that's the input she needs to select on the TV to see menus, HDD, DVD, etc.

If she doesn't have the coax out from the 2160, all she'll be able to see is the 2160's channels, menus, etc.

See Sketch #2 here for her setup. (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=12298409&postcount=10)

Ok she is not able to change channels on the tv .We do have a composite cables connecting the 2160 to the tv.We are not able to see any 2160 menus, HDD, or DVD's on the tv at all.
We have selected her tv input as video, which is what I think it should be, she even tried going through each input one by one to see if it made a difference.But we do not know what channel to set the tv on to view the 2160 menus.

Thanks

Is the pass through connection required?

The passthru coax is only reqd if she wants to see normal TV w/o the 2160 being on... it passes thru the cable signal directly to the TV.

If connected only by composite from the 2160, the channel tuning on the TV sholuld show nothing... it'll only show the internal 2160 stuff if she can select the correct input on the TV.

Once she figures that out, she can check the Video > Progressive Scan situation.

That Sketch should help figure this out.

After checking the owners manual the progressive scan default is set to off.We should be Ok there. According to Toshiba once we select video as the input there is no channel selection required on part of the TV.Is there a way to force the 2160 into its new out of the box condtion .That way at least we would be looking for the intial setup screen?

Thanks again

After checking the owners manual the progressive scan default is set to off.We should be Ok there. According to Toshiba once we select video as the input there is no channel selection required on part of the TV.Is there a way to force the 2160 into its new out of the box condtion .That way at least we would be looking for the intial setup screen?

Thanks again
Press SKIP 123 buttons in sequence within 3 sec and, at the grey screen that appears, press OK.

Here's an instruction and more info on that. (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=13686310&postcount=709#123)

Thank You wajo I appreciate your help.Once she is able to try again , I will share with her your advice.

Well I had my daughter take pictures of both the back of her tv and the back of the 2160 and I noticed the composite cables on back of the 2160 are plugged into the input side.So hopefully once she is able to make the change she will be up and running.Thanks again wajo for all you help.
Its much appreciated.:)

Well I had my daughter take pictures of both the back of her tv and the back of the 2160 and I noticed the composite cables on back of the 2160 are plugged into the input side.So hopefully once she is able to make the change she will be up and running.Thanks again wajo for all you help.
Its much appreciated.:)

One thing to keep in mind-- If she tries to change the channels on the TV set , that will move her away from the previously selected video input set on the tv, and she will no longer be able to see the dvd recorder's program on her screen. She will have to change input selection back to the auxilliary or L1 or whichever named 'video' input she's using to watch the dvd recorder. If there's an INPUT SELECTION button on the TV remote, that's a much faster way to switch than by clicking through the channels to the end/beginning of the numerical channel sequence. ALso, if the TV has a tuner and she runs a coax OUT of the2160 and into the antenna in of the tv, she'll have a very nice signal for tv watching at times when she is not using the recorder -- AND ... even better ... she will be able to watch one show and record another at the same time ( using the tv tuner to watch while the dvd recorder does its thing on the station selected on the recorder). I think that's what people were trying to explain - just by adding an extra piece of coax cable and she gets this value-added feature. Coax goes IN to the 2160 antenna, and then OUT from the 2160 INTO the tv antenna. This does not interfere with the outgoing signal that 's being fed through the video INPUT (so she can still watch that way) and the quality does not degrade as it passes through the 2160. Worth a try....