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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Stupid smart TV only has standby and the plug is not easily reachable. My preference is for off when not in use.

Standby as the "off" button on the remote essentially puts on standby

Me too! It only gets switched off at the wall if we’re not going to be in the house for weeks on end.

Even my crazy ‘turn off at the wall’ ‘totally unplug when going away’ husband puts the tv on standby and we have smart sockets that turn them off overnight from 11pm- 6am.

Standby as it records overnight and it’s slow to restart.

My parents turn absolutely everything off at the plug. I assumed this was a generational thing.

Standby, but my Mum always switches off at the plug. It’s a generational thing. She also keeps her mobile phone switched off to save the battery 😬

I fully agree with you. It's such a pointless waste of time to me but they're very stuck on their ways. Recently redid their bathroom and kept single hot and cold taps. Baffling.

What's more annoying is I bought them a gift that requires power and I realised they never use it because they never bother turning that particular plug back on.

Stand by. DH switches everything off if we go away, I wouldn’t bother,

Standby unless heading on a long holiday, my parents are convinced I’ll burn my house down!

It's left on standby unless we go on holiday.

I don't turn the TV off at the wall - does it really draw much current when it's not on? I also wouldn't call it "stand by" because it's not like when you have a computer that's gone to sleep but all your windows and tabs are still open, my TV starts from scratch when turned on.

I turn off all the plug sockets in the kitchen and the hob/oven fused switch as the hob is really easy to turn on and one of my cats occasionally chews wires

Standby if not using for a few hours. Always switch off at the wall overnight.

TV and game console is left on standby as they can do updates overnight.

Switch off via remote . If we go away for a few days or more, and if we remember, then switch off at wall

Always leave on standby
It's a PITA to access the plug

Always on standby, switched off from remote, unless we go on holidays and turn off all appliances from power switches.

Is this about cost or fire risk?

Why would anyone turn it off at the wall?? That’s weird. I just press the red button and that’s off I think.

off at wall every night

tends to go on in the evening or a bit earlier if we are charging something ( same dis board )

edit to add - a mixture of avoiding TV standby costs and reducing any fire potential - it’s such a trivial action that it’s worth while

Everything in our house gets switched to standby rather than off at the plug.

I have it switched off, and unplugged but I watch it one every few months so there is a no brain for me.

Ditto.

Left on standby if in the house during the day. Off at the plug if out during the day and off at night when we go to bed.

Standby because it does not have an on/off switch. My last tv had a physical switch so that would have been turned off. This one is operated by the remote to turn it on or off.

I never switch the plug off as it is behind the tv bench and my arms are not long enough to be able to do that without pulling the bench out and reaching down the back of the tv. Not happening.

My Dad is in his early 80s, he does switch it off at the wall but has his tv stand really far off the wall to be able to do this. When he was a child in the 1950s his house was struck by lightning via the tv aerial and it destroyed the tv, (yes, his Dad was minted to afford a tv in first place) and the electrics had to be redone. This was drilled into us with the same ferocity as don't run with scissors when we were children.

Standby. The plug is behind a cabinet.