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Re: Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast

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Post by paganel »

baq wrote: post #93
MichaelCollins wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It needs power or it degrades faster? Sounds like a great reason for me to never buy an OLED tv.

There are plenty of reasons to not get one and they don't matter since for me no other TV technology even remotely makes sense due to picture quality being so vastly superior than anything except plasma.

> vastly superior than anything except plasma.

One more reason for me to cherish my 2011 plasma TV. Also, it has none of that smart-tv non-sense, which is a big plus.

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Post by renewiltord »

Honestly, I can't give a fuck, dude. We have unlimited clean energy at our fingertips. If you want me to give a fuck about this, first let go of that. I'm for energy production maximization so that we can stop worrying about whether this is a problem.

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Post by unixhero »

I even have a separate chromecast connected to my Sony tv. The builtin doesn't appear until the TV has booted up and is nicely ready for use. While the original chrome cast ultra I can reach no matter what, and casting to it starts the TV up.

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Post by freetime2 »

Just checked my Sony Android TV from 2019 and found it is drawing 16W while turned off. Turning off the Chromecast built-in service, the remote start service, and enabling Eco mode did not seem to make a difference.

I already disliked this TV and was unlikely to buy another from Sony (for example occasionally it will “crash” while in standby mode and stop responding to any input, requiring me to unplug it and plug it back in). But learning this further damages my opinion of both Sony and Google.

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Post by freetime2 »

Nursie wrote: post #10

Misleading headline - it’s a discussion about one Sony TV, that was released in 2015. Worth checking others, but the headline makes it sound like they all do this.

I have a different model of Sony TV that I bought in 2019 that consumes 16W in standby. Not as bad as 25W, but still far higher than I would expect any modern device to consume in standby.

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Post by Bud »

It's really to the point now where we need to ban "smart" TVs, since every single one of the manufacturers is demonstrably unable to handle the responsibility of engineering these things correctly. Sony can't do software, Samsung can't, Google as a proxy is even worse than letting Sony do it, TCL can't, Apple doesn't make a TV. Nobody can handle it. And it's bad for consumers even IF they could do it competently, since TVs need to last a decade and none of this software is decently reliable for a decade's worth of upgrades.

Fucking ban it and be done with it. If the Euros are going to force Apple to adopt USB-C, which is idiotic, then we can do this, too, which would actually do some good.

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Post by matt-p »

laurynas-s wrote: post #92

Chromecast Ultra also uses 20W in standby. I was going through the all devices and found that a TV which is most of the time off, was using that much power. Now I keep it unplugged.

The chromecast ultra comes with a 5w power supply (I know, I have one and just checked) so this cannot be true.

I don't know about you but I literally don't care about 5w, it's getting converted to heat anyway just a bit less efficiently than my gas boiler.

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Post by GuB-42 »

paganel wrote: post #121
baq wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are plenty of reasons to not get one and they don't matter since for me no other TV technology even remotely makes sense due to picture quality being so vastly superior than anything except plasma.

> vastly superior than anything except plasma. One more reason for me to cherish my 2011 plasma TV. Also, it has none of that smart-tv non-sense, which is a big plus.

Since the topic is power draw, it is important to note that plasma TVs require much more power than LCD and OLED, at least when they are turned on. By how much is not trivial but it is usually at least double for a similar sized screen.

Of course, if your new TV is using 25W in standby, it doesn't really matter, but I am assuming something reasonable here.

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