Just Curious...Does Your TV Have an OFF/On Button On It?

I just read Grelo's post about Sarah Palin/Michael Jackson where someone told her she could use the button on her TV to turn it off if she didn't like what was on with all the MJ coverage right now....and yes, I have to agree...way over the top.  He is getting more coverage than a head of state or anyone else would get.  I do agree she could turn her tv off....but then again, I don't watch just the news channels..

.I usually watch all other types of programs, so I can find something else.  Again, I think this over and over and over reporting the same things about Michael is ridiculous, but hey....newscasters have to keep busy and earn the money they make, don't they!

Now as to my questions....we have 2 TVs.....one a few years old and one about a year old....both, of course have remotes..........but they also have a button that can be used to turn it off...right on the controls at the TV.

Yours? 

Actually, I never knew they made TVs with remote control access only.

Just curious.

Barbara

 

Yes,I have an Off/ON button on all my TVs' but when even PBS has discussions and newsprograms concentrating on MJ I do consider that a little over the top. When I wish to sit down and relax in the evening and not have to think about anything important there are a few programs that I can choose from,not so the past week even on PBS.

 We have 3 digital TV'S and all have several buttons on the side of the screen. Yes, one of them of on/off. 

Yes, they all do...even if it is under a panel and not so obvious.

 so they make TV's without an on and off button??? didn't know that, what if the remote fails?????

 

all 3 of our TV's have several buttons...and on and off is one of them

We had a Sony TV that was stricltly remote controlled.  It had an ON/OFF button on the console itself, but if you used it to turn the TV off, the TV would be OFF.  It had to be turned on again at the console in order for the remote to work, AND, the memory would be cleared, so it would start up by automatically cycling through channels, which took a good half hour to finish.  Very annoying.

At one point we had the TV in the bedroom routed through the DVD player so that all the controls could be on one remote.  The DVD player had no controls on the console itself--everything was controlled by the remote.  It was a pain, though, because sometimes the remote would turn on the TV and sometimes it wouldn't, so it was kind of pointless to watch TV in bed with a remote if you never knew when you'd have to actually get up and manually turn it off.

Everybody's into universal remotes.  I have leaned the value of maintaining seperate remotes.   

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We had a Sony TV that was stricltly remote controlled.  It had an ON/OFF button on the console itself, but if you used it to turn the TV off, the TV would be OFF.  It had to be turned on again at the console in order for the remote to work, AND, the memory would be cleared, so it would start up by automatically cycling through channels, which took a good half hour to finish.  Very annoying.

At one point we had the TV in the bedroom routed through the DVD player so that all the controls could be on one remote.  The DVD player had no controls on the console itself--everything was controlled by the remote.  It was a pain, though, because sometimes the remote would turn on the TV and sometimes it wouldn't, so it was kind of pointless to watch TV in bed with a remote if you never knew when you'd have to actually get up and manually turn it off.

Everybody's into universal remotes.  I have leaned the value of maintaining seperate remotes.   

Thanks, your Majesty, tht is exactly how my TV is, that is why I said it does not have an off button. The button is on the side and the darn thing goes through the same contortions lik you dscribe when you use the button.

I do not watch any shows except certain prgrams on Discovery and like prgrams, but most of the time I listen to Public Radio but do like te news at least twice a day and have the TV for an hour or so for that.

It seems like it is almost impossible to get news without MJbbeing the main subject.

Yes, my TV's have them on the TV. I would think all do, in case you lose the remote, or it breaks, etc.

 

I can only get one channel. Most of the time, we have DVD 's playing

 

Mine does. In fact I haven't been able to find the remote control since last night, so have to get up and turn it off and on and change channels the old fashioned way. How did we ever live like that? (LOL)

 I haven't turned the TV on today, so I've yet to see the Sara Palin frenzy, but for days now almost every channel had something about MJ on it. Even at the top of the TV GUIDE channel with the listings showing what's on.

 I came across the Larry King show (2 hours) where they were at Neverland, with Miko Brando and it was interesting.

I suppose one can turn their TV off, but trying to find a channel to watch that doesn't have MJ on it now- or might at some point, isn't easy.

 

Yes, my TV's have them on the TV. I would think all do, in case you lose the remote, or it breaks, etc.

 

I can only get one channel. Most of the time, we have DVD 's playing

 

  Of course they want you to buy another remote if yours breaks or you lose it. That's why they wouldn't put an on off button on the TV.  Otherwise, why not? Though it might save a few dollars when they make it.

  As too only getting one channel, if you're interested in TV, have you looked online at www.hulu.com?  It's free, have very few commercials and quite a few shows. I've been watching a new one "Mental" that's on TV Tues night and I forget. It looks like they have the new shows on for a few weeks, and then maybe have clips.

 That is if you have high speed internet, it probably wouldn't work with dialup.

 I put it on one night and they were showing an ad for THE DONNA REED SHOW. The whole show, in black and white! I don't know if they had other ones, but this was the first one. With Shelley Fabraes (?) and Paul Peterson as the kids. The husband was a pediatrician, Dr Stone. He apparently had an office on the side of his home, and made house calls, and took patients, only rushing into the kitchen inbetween things, to eat.

   Those were the days. The "Leave it to Beaver" days...(LOL)  The wife wore a dress, high heels and pearls and the husband (when he wasn't doctoring) a suit and tie.