I own a small cable system and we use the blonder tongue down and up converters,we also had the same problem some tv sets would tune the signal and some would not. So I switched the outputs over to uhf and it works on more sets. I believe that they don't build any two tuners a like. It has been a pain but it beats Motorola and there $500 boxes.
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