Probably the same Sony service center that fixed the hardware error can get it up and running with the right firmware also. Are you saying they did only half a job and returned a non-functional device?
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I've got a Sony handycam PJ50e giving me error E:91:01, it had a capacitor error, which was fixed but now i require the firmware to restore it

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