One day my tv started displaying numbers and letters and you cant get it off the screen. the buttons dont work because the tv wont recieve any signal. when i hit the menu button on the tv it changes between different things. here is what it says on different screens:
1st screen- 5Z38-919 38
2nd screen- BRT 98=o(66)+u(32)
3rd screen- CNT 78=o( 0)+u(78)
4th screen- CLR 60=o( 8)+u(52)
5th screen- TNT 68=o(36)+u(32)
6th screen- V-TNT 78=o(36)+u(32)
7th screen- S-TNT 62=o(30)+u(32)
and it goes on i don't know what to do.
eamil: calbot@earthlink.net

Calvin Ball, January 2006

after getting into it with a customer service rep at Sylvania AND philips (who produced the universal remote control that brought those codes up for me) I just turned the TV off with the power button on the TV (instead of unplugging it or trying to turn it off through the cable box) and that worked.

hope that helps for you

StinkyGoat, November 2009