Old Sony Trinitron TV.. err how do I tune it?

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I've just got this TV and I havn't got a vlue how to tune it!! The remote has lots of buttons and i've pressed them all with no luck. Surely one of you lot had an old sony, if so how the heck did you tune it! it's a KV-X2152U and there is absolutely no info on it at all.. anywhere!

The remote is an RM-816 ...lacking a menu button! Please help, cheers.
 
On my old one I seem to remember I pressed the up arrow and the arrow pointing into the diamond buttons together, then up or down to tune.
 
I had an old Sony Trin from about 1982. I can't quite remember the model. Anyway, it had wee knobs and switches that could be found under a panel under the screen on the front of it. The switches were used to select VHS or UHS and the knobs were used for fine tuning. They were about 30 of them, one for each channel that was listed on the side, and each knob was about .125" in diameter.
 
On the front hidden panel buttons on the tv is there a small button which looks like a FF (>>) symbol? Hold it in for 5 seconds.
 
yep, on the only sony we had there was a little dotted arrow moving to a little rotated square that was auto-tune

and then there was a little rotated square with arrows coming from either side to a button that was manual tune.
 
Cheers for the help, still can't seem to get it. It doesn't have the manual tuners at the back (it's not that old :p) It has 3 buttons on the front, pressed them all and held them, can't get it though. This is the remote below, how do you activate the green colour functions?

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I have a similar remote, the green buttons in a row at the bottom are teletext functions, maybe the green button second row,right works the teletext?
The red,green,yellow,blue buttons are for sound and picture adjustment when you press the 'menu' buton.
Mine is a little more complex,in fact, you can slide it open (it reveals the battery compartment) and you have more advanced buttons on the other side.
It should be auto tune, finding the strongest stations and putting them in order of strength, you can alter this so that '1' is BBC1 and '2' is BBC2 etc.
 
Hello, I tune in TV's for a living and this is the only TV to ever beat me!

Infact twice!

One time did an aerial install and distribution around a real old private school. One chap had one of these TV's and after what seemed like trying everything I gave up.

The second was on a student flat in Bath, same TV, same remote, same problem!

I knew this thread would be about this remote and TV. I look forward to the answer!
 
The tuning buttons will be the ones behind the flip down panel on the front, at least they are on all the Trinitrons of similar vintage I've ever seen. Just keep stabbing at them until something happens :p. A diamond shaped button should bring up the tuning bar, then you should have plus/minus buttons to find the frequency and another to store or something along those lines.
 
Hey there managed to do it! The remote has a slider (it has another simpler remote on the back!) but when you take the cover off there are yet MORE buttons!! This is where one of the tuning buttons was! An arrow going into a diamond as someone mentioned then you press + or - to search through the channels! Phew. thanks all.

^^ beaten :D
 
Now I don't really know what tv this is and if its the asme one I got at home, but the one I had, for auto tune you need to open up the panel in front of it. Press the top right button and that should do it.

Again, probably a different model that you have, but worth a shot :p
 
sorry to drag this up but did this tv have a sleep timer option or how did you do it on the older models?

ta.
 
Tesla said:
Where are these extra tuning buttons?
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AmDaMan said:
The remote has a slider (it has another simpler remote on the back!) but when you take the cover off there are yet MORE buttons!! This is where one of the tuning buttons was! An arrow going into a diamond as someone mentioned then you press + or - to search through the channels!
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basmic said:
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Thanks but as I can see from the pics and experience that this remote is double sided with simple and not-so-simple sides. His post makes it sound as if there are more buttons again somewhere else on the remote, where?
 
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