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RCA F36450 TV is intermittently snowy

This tv is about 5 years old and recently developed snow. Thought it was the cable box or connections but all seem okay. Also tried different video inputs to the set and am still getting intermittent snow even with a different device than the cable box. By intermittent, I mean the picture goes clear for a few seconds and then gets "spots" of granularity that are big enough to call snow in my mind. It's not over the entire picture either but seems to move to different spots on the screen.

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Your tuner assembly has a bad connection inside of itself, or there is a bad connection around the tuner assy. if this is an ATC113 chassis Good Luck

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