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Yes, I think for it not to be an option on a TV is unusual. It kind of screws up watching on a PVR or if the TV is used as a display in a commercial premises.


We watch purely on a PVR so had to switch it off as we don't touch the TV remote. However the PVR has a timeout after a few hours and when that turns off the TV eventually goes into no signal turn off. Happens quite a lot as Mrs Sands isn't a remote fiddler like me. Auto off is handier on a PVR where there's a hard drive to wear out


When I started in telly I was told it stands for entry to exit - as in what goes in come out

I've set it it off in all the menus where such things are mentioned, but clearly it's still not 100% disabled.

I know of one OB company where on the first use of their truck, the monitors in main production stack switched themselves off, 10 mins into the live broadcast !

I do wonder if we (I'm thinking of someone in their 30s/40s) will cope with technology when we're old a lot better than some older people do now?

We grew up with computers and then were early adopters of the Internet, but are probably already being confused by our kids with some things. But then technology has been getting more user friendly and simple to use (sometimes too simple) so surely we won't have any issues. The Freeview HD PVR equivalent of 2035 will be a piece of piss won't it? After all we had to put up with this sort of thing


Personally I think the big thing to deal with won't be the technology itself but how it's used. I don't really like the idea of totally non linear telly. Offer me a choice of a handful of channels and I can choose. Let me timeshift them and I'm happy. Offer me a choice of anything and I just can't decide.

But my kids generation are the other way round, and they'll be in charge in 2035 so that's how it will be