Solved! My Samsung tv is snowy when I turn it on before I ever connect to an antenna. What is wrong?

[lindakaychalmers]

TV screen is snowy. Is it going out? I got it from a friend and it was working at her place.

 

[hang-the-9]

What is it connected to? You need some sort of input source to see a real image.

 

[lindakaychalmers]

What is it connected to? You need some sort of input source to see a real image.

Even when I connect my indoor antenna it's still snowy. I can get the menu and options but it doesn't clear up. At her house we plugged it into the electrical outlet and the screen was dark but said "No signal". After bringing it to my place it had the snowy screen with or without the antenna.

 

[hang-the-9]

Could have been damaged in the move, try another input.

 

[lindakaychalmers]

Could have been damaged in the move, try another input.

I'm thinking that's what happened. Thanks for answering.

 

[jsmithepa]

"Snowy" sounds like an old analog CRT. Did your friend had an antenna hookup or did she has a set-top box?

 

[lindakaychalmers]

"Snowy" sounds like an old analog CRT. Did your friend had an antenna hookup or did she has a set-top box?
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My friend had a cable box and a DVD player. All I have is an indoor antenna.

 

[jsmithepa]

If this TV has an HDMI port on the back (Google for image) then is a digital TV.

But am wagering you have an analog TV, in which case, you need box which decodes digital TV that are broadcast today. You will need a box called an ATSC tuner. Am not on top of these things so no idea how much they cost to "revive" this TV for you.

 

[lindakaychalmers]

If this TV has an HDMI port on the back (Google for image) then is a digital TV.

But am wagering you have an analog TV, in which case, you need box which decodes digital TV that are broadcast today. You will need a box called an ATSC tuner. Am not on top of these things so no idea how much they cost to "revive" this TV for you.

It has the HDMI port.

 

[jsmithepa]

It has the HDMI port.

This tells me you are "tuned" to the AV input, you gotta do 3 things:

1. Go into your Menu/Setup and change TV from Cable to Antenna.
2. Tell it to do a SCAN (with antenna already hooked up). This may take up to 1/2 hour.
3. Use remote to select input TV.