Originally Posted by DirtyBarrySpeed:
“My Samsung TV does not have an off switch, only goes into standby mode with a red light.”
“My Samsung TV does not have an off switch, only goes into standby mode with a red light.”
The later Sony sets have a momentary contact on/off switch on the set - but all it does is turn off the red standby LED - you can still turn the set back on from the remote

Prior to those if you turned it 'off' (still ON, just a slightly lower standby) you couldn't bring it back on from the remote, but had to press the on/off on the TV.
There have been a few relatively recentish ones that also had a mains rocker switch as well, and these of course turned the mains off completely.
My Hitachi (Vestel) Plasma at home has a proper mains switch underneath, and various Vestel clone TV's have also often had mains switches, often (rather bizarrely) right round the back of the TV.



