I purchased the 65 inch Sony X8000G last year from TheGoodGuys and it has been working fine till last week. Now, when I use the remote to switch on the TV, it takes about a minute for the LED light under the Sony logo to come on and then the TV restarts (it does not simply wake up from sleep/standby). The whole process takes about 2.5-3 minutes till I can actually access any apps or watch something on the TV.
I called up Sony customer care and apparently, the latest update puts the TV into a state of "Deep Sleep" few minutes after it is powered off and powering it on after that will always restart the TV. This behavior is apparently "normal" and the TVs in their warehouse also now behave this way. I call bull****! There is no way people are ok with waiting 3 minutes each time they want to access their TV. And you dont even know if the TV is powering on because the LED light under the TV does not come on for almost a minute.
I looked this issue up online and there seem to be many users having the same issue across various models of Bravia TV. Can somebody else here with the same TV model verify if this is behavior is "Normal"
Update: Sony has sent out a technician to fix the issue. He came over with a software update in a USB stick. Apparently the update is available for download on the sony website but it does not get pushed out as an automatic update to the TVs. Issue seems fixed now.
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Does it really matter though?
A couple of minutes.
If the behaviour is being reported by multiple users in different forums, then it would indeed appear to be the new 'normal' behaviour.