We had a bit of a scare with our new television – suddenly channels 4 and 5 didn’t have any sound! First I assumed it was some sort of cable malfunction, but our other TV didn’t have any trouble with the signal. So I then began to think that it must be a malfunction in the TV set. I really didn’t want to pack that heavy thing back in its box and take it back, especially after the great deal we got.

Fortunately, a bit of experimentation led me to the discovery that it was in “SAP” audio mode. I don’t know what that means, except that some channels have audio in that mode and some don’t. Switching to that mode must be a pretty useful thing, because the button to do it is easy to hit on the remote. In any case, I hit that button a few more times and audio was restored.

(Okay, I couldn’t resist figuring out exactly what SAP is, so I “googled” it. It’s the “secondary audio program,” which would be used for an alternate translation (e.g., Spanish) if it was available, but in actuality is used inconsistently and thus causes people such as myself great confusion.)