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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I turn it off at the plug. Also a 70s child and remember fire hazard adverts. It's just a habit now and I don't even think about it.

Mine are switched off, but only because I have smart home set ups that means all the lights / sockets can be controlled remotely and they are always set to run pre-programmed routes on lights / sockets / timing etc. So if I do nothing then the media stuff will switch of at midnight, when the lighting flips to night mode

However, I suspect the smart sockets / lights hardware use at least as much power as leaving the TV on standby, so it's not an energy saving tool ;)

Always on standby, unless I'm away on holiday and absolutely sure there isn't a programme I'd want to record remotely.

Standby all the time. Life’s too short to be concerned about things like that.

I have a smart plug linked to my tv so I can’t switch it off via my phone.

Tv gets switched off at the wall but leave the skyq on standby cause of recordings

Standby - again too many cables in awkward places to unplug. I've never noticed an off switch in the TV. Suppose there must be one somewhere.

Standby.

Off at the switch but not at the socket. Software updates are pushed through at night. Router on constantly, other items that get updated are on standby.

MIL always wonders why her stuff takes ages to start up each time she plugs it all back in and switches it on.

Standby doesn't use much extra power on a new tv.

I would unplug if I was going to be away for a few days and fully disconnect if there was a thunderstorm or I knew their was going to be a power outage as I like my (expensive) tv.

I’m Team Standby.

Never left on standby.

same here. its something ive never actually thought about, ive always just switched the TV off using the remote and yes my red standby light is on on my tv. only time ive switched off at the wall socket is if we've been going on holiday for a week or so.

Off at wall. DH is obsessive about this.

Standby. I live in Spain where sockets don’t have switches so you have to unplug if want to totally turn something off. Then you have the hassle of plugging back in so I don’t bother.

Standby, because I'd have to move a heavy TV cabinet to be able to reach the plugs.

Just about everything is on standby - including the tv.

Standby because (mine anyway) does a re-boot if powered off

I'm in Sweden and it's the same. So I have everything plugged into an extension lead that has a switch. It's not ideal but the cost of things being on standby makes it necessary.

Turn the set off. Nothing is left on standby.

Used to leave it on standby until one of the naughty cats sat his fat bum on the remote and turned it on at 4.00 a.m. waking the whole house up! Now turn it off at the set.

I cant recall having turned it off at the wall ever in my life.

Standby, only off at the wall when going away.

Another good reason to only have a smaller TV! I watch an embarrassing far too much television as it is without the blasted thing costing an arm and a leg to run😅

Standby always except when we all go away on holiday, which is almost never as grown up kids live with us.