I think my Sony is possessed. I shut it off after watching and go and do other stuff. Come back into the room anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour later, and it's on. This happens about 50% of the time. Other times I turn it off like always and it's fine.

I put it down to fat-fingering the tiny little buttons on the remote.

I didn't have it on at all yesterday and I woke up sometime last night (it's in the bedroom) and it was on!

I was under the impression that remotes were I/R and line-of-sight. Is it possible that the remote is using a wifi-type signal (for lack of a better term) and one of the other two TV remotes in use elsewhere in the house are affecting it?

Or should I shoot it?

You need an exorcism.

^^^ Hence my comment about shooting it.

What other devices are connected to your TV? I would guess that there's another device turning on when you're turning everything off (universal remotes gone wild kind of thing.).

DTV remotes can be either IR or radio. You'd have to see if your tv and/or remotes can do both as well. Could be a solution.

"Smart" system paying you back for passing gas in the viewing area!

I did a Bing search and it seems that the default setting is that "off" is actually "standby".

There's a procedure to turn off something called "CEC" that's supposed to fix the issue.

Shoulda searched first. You'd think by now I'd know that The Internet Knows All.

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"Smart" system paying you back for passing gas in the viewing area!

If that were true, I'd have been killed in my sleep by now. SWMBO has threatened it often enough...

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Originally posted by bald1:
"Smart" system paying you back for passing gas in the viewing area!

If that were true, I'd have been killed in my sleep by now. SWMBO has threatened it often enough...

OMG! hahahahahahahahahahaaaa

Those lobster rolls must be killer!

Some TVs/monitors will light up when they see activity on an HDMI input. In fact, these are never "off" but rather "sleeping." A flag that this is what is happening is that the activating signal will become the selected device, but this does not always happen. Disconnect everything but the antenna, see if behavior changes.

Nothing to worry about. It's just the only way the Chinese Government can access your microphone and camera.

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Originally posted by architect:
Some TVs/monitors will light up when they see activity on an HDMI input. In fact, these are never "off" but rather "sleeping." A flag that this is what is happening is that the activating signal will become the selected device, but this does not always happen. Disconnect everything but the antenna, see if behavior changes.

^^^This was my issue when my TV started turning itself on at night. Removing the Firestick from the HDMI connection stopped the issue. I ended up plugging the TV into a Smart Plug and controlling the power through that device.

Mine did that too.
When my Amazon Fire Stick went into sleep mode it would turn the TV back on by some HDMI signal. I started turning my Fire Stick to sleep mode before powering the TV off and no more problems.

I had that happen a few times on the garage TV, chalked it up to me not turning it off completely as the box was off but the screen remained on, sometimes the screen was off and the sound bar would stay on, freaked out the wife when she'd walk out there for work at 5 am and hear some guys talking... LOL

Simply wrap the TV in a blanket and store it in the trunk of your car when it’s not in use.

After all, it is October and as I look through your TV, I see you don’t have your tinfoil hat on.

What brand TV, Sony or Visio?

Sony/Samsung/Viso/whatever....they all do this. The only way to turn it OFF is to unplug it. I wake up at night and see a glow com8ng down the hall from the den. The Samsung is sitting there complaining about no signal from any of it’s devices.

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Simply wrap the TV in a blanket and store it in the trunk of your car when it’s not in use.

There was a reason Cadillac made the 11975 Cadillac Series 75 Bro-ham.

When I turn my BluRay player on the receiver also comes on. Same deal, it is not completely "off" but in standby mode. Doesn't bother me though as it has to come on eventually if I want to watch a movie.