Nelson wrote:

You can also buy a universal remote and program it.


This may not apply to the new Sony sets, but ours (old ones) used a channel
number button to turn on. The power button only turned off the set.

This was fine until the remotes on our DBS system died. When we replaced them
the new ones channel buttons do not affect the TV. The volume buttons do, but
not the channel ones, I assume they assume you set the TV once and never
change the channel.

BTW, there are various brands of graphite solution in alcohol that can be used
to repair the conductive surface. Unfortunately they are not legal to mail
outside the country and I can't get any. I use DeOxit to clean them as
best I can, but can't really replace the graphite.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
Making your enemy reliant on software you support is the best revenge.