On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 9:15:42 PM UTC-5, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in sci.electronics.repair:
>"Of course switching the TV to the mono carrier did solve the
> > issue but for some >reason that TV set did not want to store
> > the setting and after off-on it was in >stereo again. "
>
> If no other user settings are lost it was probably by
> design. Automatic. S*it like this is why I almost never
> buy anything new.
Not to make anything sound as easy as pie, but trying to get one "special friend" or (always remembering a certain tech's name) at each supplier/retailer probably makes things easier if you "had" to buy new.
That way, "just he/she" is responsible at that company for whatever later goes wrong. But then again, all that takes relationship cultivating You know, people sometimes come and go.