Settle this for me, in your house DO you or do you NOT...

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Leave the TV on standby? As in if you know you're not going to be using it again for the next few hours / days do you switch it off via remote control or do you switch off the actual plug?

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Standby. Who turns off plugs? They barely use any electricity in standby mode these days.

Standby always, even if we go away for a couple of weeks

Always on standby. I don't know anyone who switches it off at the plug!

Our remote you can switch off normally, to standby, or shut down. I don't unplug it though (no switches on the sockets here - one thing I do miss about the UK!)

I am paranoid and switch everything off at the plug. My partner thinks I am crazy.
Please could you explain the increased fire risk by leaving on standby so I can explain to my partner.

Button on TV, never leave it on standby

Standby at night. if we're out we leave it on on for the dog 🤣

i have one old TV that actually switches off. The others are on standby because I can’t be bothered to go behind them to switch off at the plug

Hrft but same

Used to pull out the plug but not anymore.

At the wall because it’s on an extension lead with chargers and I’ve been scared with horror stories. I leave the WiFi box on though and if it was plugged directly in to the wall I’d just leave it on standby

Ours are on smart plugs so I can shout at Alexa to switch off at the wall,rather than leaving on standby and to save having to go behind the cupboards.I sometimes do it from my phone when out if I forget !

WiFi plug on a timer, makes me go to bed at a decent time, as TV turns itself off 😂

On standby here. Only time we ever switch off at the wall if when the TV is playing up and needs a reboot

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When I had a TV I left it on standby bc I was told that turning it off damaged flat screen TV's.

We have remotely operated control plug things. So TV is plugged into control plug thing, then into wall. Special remote controller switches the control plug off without need for fishing round and switching it off at the wall. Table lights on other control plugs, all operated by same remote, so I can sit in my chair and switch everything on and off without bending. Or even moving.

I turn it off with the physical off switch or the wall. Just been given a new (to me) TV, it’s off at the wall as I can find no switches.
Microwave off at the wall too. I never leave anything on standby.

Ours is always turned off. All plugs are in an extension that take five plugs. We just take the tv one out. As for overnight recording, the tv doesn’t need to be plugged in for that.

Standby always...as the wall plug cants be accessed without moving furniture out

One is in use daily that is kept on standby the others are turned off at the plug

Historically unplugged at the wall. DF was a safety expert and would cite lightening strike and subsequent fire as the reason. But I don’t remember pulling the aerial out of the socket which would be the obvious source of lightening damage. These were TVs we owned pre remote control or standby. But they were comparatively hugely more expensive than modern TVs and circuit breakers were non existent.
I think that lightening strike causes damage and the TV is the least of your worries.
DF was a Yorkshire man by nature if not by birth so standby would have annoyed him from a financial point of view rather that safety.
With modern TV systems turning on from “cold” is time consuming because they are basically computers and often update and load up software so it’s a similar problem to vintage “valve” TVs that literally had to warm up. So leaving on standby is more convenient, but does involve a small amount of cost.
My BIL is a very tight Cornishman and switches the WiFI off. When the DC were younger it was to encourage them to not use gadgets and phones but we knew that it was more about the 0.0001p that it was costing. It also explained why my DSis was so slow at answering What’s App messages.
I tend to unplug everything if we go away but maybe I’m just making it easier for any burglar to take all our electrical stuff. However I never “organize cables, the burglars can untangle the mess if they really want our stuff.

Turn off at wall. Also the toaster, airfryer etc

Plug everytime, but then everything gets turned off at the plug now ( would turn the fridge freezer off if i could) after my daughter had an electrical fire in the night from a washing machine left plugged in ( but not in use) lost everything and almost their lives had they not woken up :(

You clearly need to look at that again. An annual consumption of 4kWh means that it uses less than £1 per year, my TV is very similar.