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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Only ever on standby unless I'm going away.

I never watch tv much before 8 in the evening and I record everything I want to watch, obviously not stuff on Netflix, so I can fast forward through the advertisements.

Tv is only used two nights a week here but never turn off at socket, I think the amount it would save is negligible and also there’s sometimes stuff recording.

My partner insists on switching it off. Left to me, it would stay on standby.

Standby

Standby. Plug is behind a unit anyway.

I genuinely wonder if anyone knows of any cases of a TV catching on fire because it was left on standby?

Main lounge TV is always on standby but the others in our bedroom & kitchen are left off altogether as we rarely use them.

Same here.

Off because I rarely use it. I watch telly on my laptop mostly.

Stand by during day, switched off when last one goes up to bed (holidays and weekends)

if we are all out of house during day it’s switched off.

No, handmade

standby. The workings of the back of the TV/soundbars/sky boxes and games consoles are too scary to contemplate.

My laptop is old, no camera or microphone. Running Linux on it. I feel relatively "safe", even if it is only a placebo.

I'm not sure. I have an old Phillips TV (that I love) one if the 2 string men to carry type.

the remote has 'standby' & on/off.

I use the remote 'off'

I don't switch it off at the plug.

I switch everything off when not in use. The only thing that’s not off at the wall is the fridge. I am not concerned about the financial aspect; in fact I hadn’t even considered it until I read it here, I am hyper vigilant though and have OCD

Ours has a button on the front of the tv you can switch it off with so the remote doesn’t work anymore. I tend to switch it on/off there vs leaving on standby. Is that not normal?

I take the plugs out.

We turn it off with the power button rather than leaving it on standby. Rarely gets unplugged though, the plug is inaccessible.

Yep, us too.

Are you sure? Based on current average price 4kwh is around £350 ! 😱
that’s half my electricity bill per year

assuming you’ve got maths wrong, or you have an unusually enormous TV, the actual typical cost is estimated at £3 to £25 per year depending on your tv

however, it’s the accumulative effect of ALL the devices left on standby or with digital displays (ovens, microwaves etc). Makes me mad that manufacturers set up all electronics these days with a default assumption that we want to leave on standby. Whilst one house still ain’t that much, over the entire country we’re talking about precious resources being wasted on blue lights, random clocks, etc that we simply don’t need.

eve nor you could have a time on standby it would be better , turn on in morning, switches off auto at night and saves electriculty over night etc

It's like the Hammer House of Horrors behind the TV as I found out on Monday when I had to reboot the Sky Q box a few times.
My late MIL would turn off everything before bed, she did the same when at our house, luckily at the time we only had a fridge with a small ice box, the children loved chocolate ice-cream for breakfast on Christmas morning!

Why?

if it's only 10 minutes I'll leave mine actually playing...

I haven't had a tv with buttons on it for many years

TV never gets switched off unless we go on holiday. All our tech is on power surge blocks, white goods except fridge and freezer are all off at the wall but are all old tech so power going through anyway. Kettle, coffee machine, microwave switched off at wall after use.

Standby but my husband turns off nearly everything else at the wall every night - microwave, kettle, toaster, coffee machine etc etc 😬

Each to their own & im sorry about your OCD 🥺 but that would drive me bonkers!
waiting for things like the printer to sort itself out or the TiVo box (that takes AGES).

I have a friend that turns everything off at the wall (including the kettle) and when she stays I have to remember to turn them on at the wall or I flick the kettle in £ winder why it hasn't boiled 5 minutes later!. Drives me loopy 🤣