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How can I turn off my LG TV?
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Morning everyone - I hope your having a fab christmas -
I have an LG LCD TV, but I can't turn the red stand by light off.
The only way to turn the red stand by light off is to turn the plug in the wall off.
The light on the tv will be green when the TV is on, and when I turn the TV off goes red. I push the round off button on the side of the TV and instead of turning the whole set off - it turns the green light back on. - Am I missing something obvious or is this normal
Cheers
FS
I have an LG LCD TV, but I can't turn the red stand by light off.
The only way to turn the red stand by light off is to turn the plug in the wall off.
The light on the tv will be green when the TV is on, and when I turn the TV off goes red. I push the round off button on the side of the TV and instead of turning the whole set off - it turns the green light back on. - Am I missing something obvious or is this normal
Cheers
FS
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Perfectly normal. All plasmas and LCDs, just like all digiboxes, all VCRs, all AV amps and receivers, all DVD players and recorders, are meant to be put into standby, not switched off completely. If you want to switch it off completely, then, as you have noticed, you can turn it off at the wall socket. But it won't be downloading any updates or outputting the contents of its Freeview tuner when turned off at the wall socket - it may well be doing this when put into standby.
Sorry, but that's mostly not true - most sets have an 'on/off' switch, which turns it off further than standby, but not 100% off, it leaves a tiny consumption supply running in order to be able to turn the set back on using the on/off switch on the set. Very few have actual mains switches, the switch is usually a light contact one that switches electronics in the set.
I have an LG LCD tv and I know you can turn the red light off, but it is just the light that is off, not the tv which is still in standby mode.
Dont worry
The LG may have something similar to this in the menus.
Pity, because they great for wall mounts, only lead required was a thin two core mains lead (figure 8 plug).
They about use the same power as the old night/day bulbs,
not worth the hassle,always on standby
I don't know what you mean. My DVD player (cheap Chinese "Mirror" thing but plays even the most damaged discs - physically broken discs is about its limit), has a manual on-off switch - i.e. button pushed in = on, sticking out = off. No green or red LED. In fact, no LED at all to indicate power status, just the LED matrix for displaying "Play", "Skip", "Menu" etc.
And I have a Betamax VCR with the same kind of switch. And a HiFi with a manual switch so you claim of "all" is far from the truth.
With these you put the TV into standby, the ES notices the reduction in power drain and in a few moments it switches off all the equipment connected to it.
The ES then waits for a command from your TVs remote control (you simply program this into the ES). This supplies power to all the connected devices. By pressing the power on button on the ES a second time power is restored.
Or you can use a radio controlled (RC)stand-alone power socket, with it's own RC.
Basically, what I'm saying is there are many ways to skin this cat, so use a little imagination.
These [click] were featured on Dragon's Den a while back. I use a couple myself.
It's set up in the bedroom to turn off active speakers and network media device when the TV is on standby.
Obviously if you were to buy one, the savings may not cover the cost for a long time!
If you always use Sky or a DVD player rather than the TV's own tuner, you could put all of the players on the triggering socket and any dependent devices like AMP and TV on another using multi-socket strips.
I had a couple for my computers,free from Manweb or whatever, once the computer is switched off it kills all others connected, but at start up everything as to go through its systems, my printer for example takes a while,if I used one for my Comag Dish turner it would go into boot up each time.as would my HDD recorder.
Are they not meant for computers?