My particular problem turned out to be user error (as I somehow expected). My universal remote still had relics of my 950 on it so I did a key by key update and now the defaulting to analog doesn't happen. It will now remember my PLIIx-M config default instead of PLIIx-C . That works out well for me but it still won't remember stereo as a default on the digital input which I can understand some users would want.