suppose my wife would leave the tv on once in a great while, on average 5-8hrs a night... would it be hurting anything else or would it just be leading to prematrue lamp failure? i come home at 5am from work and the tvs just on, nothings on it (the cable box is off)... its just sitting there... doing nothing... i cant even remember how many times ive told her to make sure the tv is shut off... but i guess the constant reminders havent worked... its not like its hard to tell when you turn it off... blue light means its on, yellow light means its shutting down... not that hard... i didnt work my ass off so we could buy this nice tv and then have it piss out early on me... i give up... /rant

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Write a reminder note on a short wide folded triangular piece of paper and place it on top of the TV.

Honestly man? Go to Best Buy or something and grab one of those power timers. Plug the TV into the timer, and the timer to the wall...and set the time of day it will shut off. Works wonders.

I doubt his tv needs a external timer, im sure it has a built in one





better yet- she can just press the button

Shoot the ole lady and buy a dog.

You're right, it might have a built-in timer...if it doesn't my suggestion still stands :-p.



She SHOULD be able to press a button though...my older brother leaves our 53" TV on ALL the time...

Life's too short. If you're stressing about whether or not your damn TV is on all night, you've probably spent more than you could comfortably afford on it.

Aside from my mother's car and the house, we own everything. Leaving such a large TV on all the time wastes power, and adds cost to the electric bill every month that could easily be avoided. Not to mention the added wear on the TV itself. If it were some ho-hum CRT TV that was only like $200, we wouldn't have an issue with it. But when a TV is worth far more than that, you don't want to just leave it on.

And when your older brother is 6'3 and 320lbs of fat, getting off his ass to turn the TV off before he sleeps for the next 20 hours is excercise that he very much needs.

Do you know how much bulbs for a projector cost? Any idea at all? You don't want to leave it on unless you're using it...it WILL eventually burn out and then you'll be crying.

the lamps for my tv are $61 each I think

Cheaper than my friend's. Multiply that times three.