Turning a TV off at night completely and removing from standby will save electricity and will save you a small amount of money. Now we have discussed the reasons why a TV should be left on at night, let’s look at why it may be a good idea to turn the TV off from standby at night or to unplug the TV altogether.
If the PVR is left on standby it will automatically power up and power down during the scheduled recording. Well not necessarily if you switch the TV off of standby but leave the Sky box on but I’m sure that you will get the point. If you’re using something like a Sky box to record programmes during the night, these will fail if you switch the equipment off at night. This is the manufacturer telling you that “we don’t want the TV removed from standby.” This isn’t always easy as often these are behind the TV cabinet or behind the TV itself on wall mounted TV’s which you may have to remove from its bracket altogether to get to.
Many manufactures completely remove the ability to switch the power off completely from the TV so that the only way to turn it off completely and off of standby would be to switch off at the power socket or to disconnect from the mains supply altogether. Some TV’s Won’t Allow You To Turn Off Standby Most AV products have at least one USB slot but older products may not have any! Bare that in mind before you cut the power off at night. Alternatively, if neither is possible you could find the latest software/firmware on the internet, download it to your computer and upload it to a USB stick to be inserted into the TV or AV equipment via the USB slot. Like already mentioned this can be done over the internet or over the air.
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If you navigate into the settings of your TV or AV equipment you can often check to see whether you have the latest software and if you haven’t this should be updated. You could end up throwing a perfectly good TV away believing it to be faulty when all it needed was the software updated as this isn’t always something that owners of TV’s often think to check. You may call out a local installer to come look at your TV aerial or satellite dish to ensure that it isn’t that and if proved to not be. If your TV is consistently missing software updates, it could look as behave as if it was faulty. You Might Throw A Perfectly Good TV Away!
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This however could be overcome by doing a manual software upgrade on the Sky box. This used to be very common with Sky boxes which would develop issues that they otherwise wouldn’t have.
The problem with switching your equipment off at night is it can miss these vital software upgrades which can seriously impact the performance of your TV/ set top box. Admittedly this is becoming less of an issue with modern connected “Smart TV’s” that connect to your internet connection as this with the broadband speeds becoming increasingly quicker is often completed in a minute or two whereas over the air software updates which were completed over satellite or the TV aerial usually took far longer. This is usually to improve the user experience but often it is to fix bugs and glitches in the existing software. Periodically manufacturers of TV’s and set top boxes will bring out new software.
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There are many reasons to leave your TV on at night and not disconnecting it from it’s power source altogether.Ī lot of TV’s will update their software at night when less people are typically watching TV as often you can not do both at the same time.