# Please prevent me from taking a sledge hammer to my television. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 10, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-taking-a-sledge-hammer-to-my-television/244427 "2004-05-10T07:50:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-taking-a-sledge-hammer-to-my-television/244427/21 "2004-05-11T05:37:42Z")
So…any luck? ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-taking-a-sledge-hammer-to-my-television/244427/22 "2004-05-11T07:31:13Z")
Is there a switch on the VCR to tell it whether to spit the signal out the coax or the video connector? Can you hook the coax up to another TV temporarily just to verify that a signal is actually being generated? ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-taking-a-sledge-hammer-to-my-television/244427/23 "2004-05-14T00:01:35Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > The manual is available on PDF here: [http://support.panasonic.co.uk/sys/ttips/panasonic/Visual/Televisions\_NON-TEXT/TC/2160/B2160.pdf](http://support.panasonic.co.uk/sys/ttips/panasonic/Visual/Televisions_NON-TEXT/TC/2160/B2160.pdf) > > Briefly, you must (1) assure that the TV/AV button (TV or remote) has been pressed to select “AV”; (2) if using RF connectors, you must make the VCR channel “0” on the TV. No, that doesn’t work. > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Mr. Moto** > Why do you have a multisystem TV? > > If you changed systems by moving from Europe to America (or vice versa) you may have to switch systems on the TV to get the TV to work again. Because it was cheap and I was broke. And the switches are all right, else I couldn’t receive a normal broadcast signal. > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **leander** > So…any luck? No. ☹ I’m going to try **galt** ’s suggestion next - the different TV part, not the switch part. I just wonder if it’s not the VCR. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-taking-a-sledge-hammer-to-my-television/244427/24 "2004-05-14T00:45:23Z")
Don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but on the last page of the online manual it says that the TV is 240V 50Hz (UK voltage I guess). The US is 110V 60Hz. Are you using an AC voltage converter? ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-taking-a-sledge-hammer-to-my-television/244427/25 "2004-05-14T00:50:52Z")
> [@Hail Ants](#): > > Don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but on the last page of the online manual it says that the TV is 240V 50Hz (UK voltage I guess). The US is 110V 60Hz. Are you using an AC voltage converter? Yep, no issues there. What really bothers me is that I never had problems like this before - it was all pretty cut and dried. Plug everything in, turn it on, tune the TV, and the VCR channel was automatically tuned in. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-taking-a-sledge-hammer-to-my-television/244427/26 "2004-05-14T01:08:06Z")
Are you sure the problem is with the TV, not the VCR? What happens when you plug the VCR into a different TV, what channel does it come up on? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-taking-a-sledge-hammer-to-my-television/244427/27 "2004-05-14T04:16:02Z")
> [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > Maybe [it does?](http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/) That site is sick! Sick! The cathode ray tube by virtue of both programs it displays and by its warm, glowing warming glow, is a great source of spiritual and mental nourishment. Why do you think it’s called the Glass Teat and the Boob Tube? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-prevent-me-from-taking-a-sledge-hammer-to-my-television/244427.md?page=1)