Samsung HDTV changes HD Station Numbers...

On my Samsung HDTV (LN40A550), the digital station numbers keep changing. Example: I have Cox Communications as my cable provider and the ABC Network Digital HD Station number is 711, however in the Channel List sometimes my Samsung TV will switch from 711 to 54.5 and then back to 711. I never know which station the HD ABC Network will be listed as. This happens to a few other HD Digital stations as well which makes me loose these stations in my Favorites settings. This is extremely annoying as I have to keep adding and loosing these stations in my Favorites Settings. I have another Samsung HDTV and the same thing happens on this one also.

P.S. I also have 2 Sony HDTV's and this NEVER happens with those sets.

I kinda figured it was something specific to the Samsung TV's, but I wanted to find out if there was a fix for this problem. I emailed Samsung about it but still waiting for a response from them.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions on this problem.

Here is the response I got from Samsung:

"We apologize for the inconvenience.

We recommend you reset the TV and setup the TV again and run auto program and check if the issue persists or not.

This will reset all the settings to factory defaults.

Below are the instructions to reset the TV to factory defaults:

Press and hold Exit button on the TV Remote Control for 10 seconds."

I'll keep you posted if this fixes the problem.


UPDATE...This did NOT solve the problem!