As per recent news article, it seems there are issues with Samsung TVs turning themselves off.
I live in metro Adelaide and have this happened number of times in past few months.
Anyone else having this issue?
Samsung TVs Turning Themselves off
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I feed it only the finest selection of Netflix!
Samsung TVs Turing Themselves off
Probably as a tribute to great Alan Turing. One of the brightest mind of last century
His TV passed the Turing test, achieved sentience and is now turning itself off to rebel against it's human masters.
But the more boring and realistic answer would be that the TV has a unpatched software glitch that only acts up now.
nah…it's just the NSA messing with people.
Mine randomly turns itself on over night. It just comes on with a black screen (you can see the LED backlit black), for a few seconds then turns itself off.
Probably turning on to talk back to Samsung </paranoia>
I had the same issue with a Samsung 52" TV a few years back.
Turned out some of the capacitors had blown on the board.
Ended up buying a new TV and stuck the Samsung in the garage.
Got bored one day and started Googling.
Eventually found a "Samsung Capacitor Repair Kit" on the internet as it was a widespread issue.
Being a complete amateur at soldering and what not, I gave it a go as it was way outside of warranty anyway.
After replacing the capacitors (even with my horrible soldering job) the TV has worked flawlessly since.
EDIT: Just clicked and read the link you provided. Maybe there's other gremlins at play.
Mines fine although i did disable auto updates.
12 months ago I was at the tip and this old bloke in a ute was trying to drag a 65" LG TV off the tray into the electronics dumping area. I asked if he needed a hand and then asked what was the problem with the TV (looked pretty new)
old mate said that it would randomly turn off. and not worth fixing. I offered to take it to have a play with. he was happy someone would have a go at fixing it.
got it home, plugged it in and when watching channel 9 (i think that one) it would randomly turn off. other channels were fine. playing a dvd was fine.
did an interweb search and found that certain models , combined with certain firmware they were running, and the the digital frequency of 9 - would result in the random turning off.
LG offered a fix - they sent a techdude around with a firmware upgrade USB dongle - fixed it perfectly. sold the TV for $300.
I run a Roku box on it and use that for all the apps. anything from that works fine, no issues. I get the issue when watching free-to-air or something from a usb. hence it makes me think it is a software issue (but I have updated it)
they are probably sick of the crappy content