Intermittent snowy pictures under Channel 51

Previous owner had lost the original remote. He ran the channels through a VCR. All channels worked fine. We moved tv to my house and discovered that one of my remotes operated all the channels so I didn't need to run it through vcr to change channels. TV worked fine the first day. Now the channels under 51 only come in clear intermittently, sometimes for hours, but if I change the channel to another one under 51, it is completely snowy and so I have to watch something above channel 51. I have tried to change the channel to 3 to run it through vcr but even that is sometimes too snowy to view. Also, sometimes I can't watch a VCR tape because channel 3 is so snowy. What could the problem be? I have cable. The only time I messed with the controls was the first day when I removed the "Channel tags" that the previous owners children had placed insulting messages to each other. I have run the autoprgoram several times.

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Probably needs a new tuner or something associated with the tuner.

Posted on Jul 07, 2007

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