Entertainment Center: TVs, Stereos, VCRs and DVDs - No bottom line on 14inch flat screen Magnavox

Magnavox Model 14MS2331/17: Bottom line announcements are cut off. No adjusting knobs on outside. Is there an adjustment somewhere inside the case to squeeze the picture?

There used to be.
Vertical size, vertical height, vertical linearity, some of which interacted with each other.
If you find the potentiometers inside, make a drawing of the setting so you can return to it if necessary. The PC board might have a label of what control does what.

Most of these types of adjustments are now accessed on the service menu using the remote for adjustments. You'll have to find the remote access code to get into the service menu, then determine which of the adjustments you need for vertical height. Maybe someone with Philips-Magnovox service experience can offer some advice to getting into the service menu and which specific adjustment will solve your problem. I do know you have to be very careful when messing around in the service menu, as its easy to really mess up the picture, and there is no "reset" to go back to default settings.

That's a flat screen tube TV. The manual can be downloaded here (http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/1/14ms2331_17/14ms2331_17_dfu_aen.pdf).

Are you sure you haven't accidentally set the aspect ratio to "Expand 4:3"? (Page 13 of the manual.)

If not, you'll have to pull the back off the TV and be comfortable working around potentially lethal voltages. Read HotinOKC's Sticky Thread (http://forum.doityourself.com/showthread.php?t=309110) about TV safety.

The adjustment will be mechanical, though, not electronic. There's a series of magnets on the neck of the tube that controls the path of electrons. Be advised that once you start moving them, you'll be messing with them for hours.

Many thanks to Rick, Beachboy, and WDIDAA. I will follow your advice...

Update--Aspect ratio had been changed as Rick suggested--I didn't do it, I swear. All okay now. Thanks!!