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Originally Posted by birdbrainbb
And then I don't know why turning it off would be BAD for it (unplugging a TV isn't bad for it, just weird, if we're still using that metaphor).
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Actually, depending on the TV and how it's designed, turning it off can be bad for it. I used to work as a TV engineer for a Bang & Olufsen dealer, and we found that we got quite a few
LX 2500 in for repair once they got to be about five years old. It turned out that B&O didn't expect people to unplug them (apparently in continental Europe, very few people ever unplug TVs, but in the UK, most people unplug them overnight) and after about five years, the power supply would die due to the extra strain involved in powering it up from cold. B&O supplied a repair kit that upgraded the power supply, so we were able to repair them without any trouble, and future models were designed to be able to cope with being unplugged.