The angry thread

[scotsoft]

I wanted switch our new TV off rather than leave it on standby.

Go to the manual; look up switching on and off; 
instruction reads 'press red button on handset to put on standby'
It goes on 'not recommended that TV is left on standby when you go ... e.g.... on holiday'

There is no 'OFF' switch on TV. You have to turn it off at the wall socket. Bit irritating that!

I wonder how much removing a proper on/off switch saved Samsung?

Dave G

Same problem with my LG 

cheers John.

[zwilnik]

I wonder how much removing a proper on/off switch saved Samsung?

Dave G

I'd watch out when moving it too, Samsung save a few more pennies by soldering the power socket straight to the motherboard and not bolting it to the casing at all. So it's very easy for it to work loose when you unplug/plug the power lead in the back.

[trainsdownunder]

I wanted switch our new TV off rather than leave it on standby.

Go to the manual; look up switching on and off; 
instruction reads 'press red button on handset to put on standby'
It goes on 'not recommended that TV is left on standby when you go ... e.g.... on holiday'

There is no 'OFF' switch on TV. You have to turn it off at the wall socket. Bit irritating that!

I wonder how much removing a proper on/off switch saved Samsung?

Dave G

Same problem with my LG 

cheers John.

Seems to be the same for so many of modern day "techno" items. Spend 5 minutes going round turn it all off at the wall before bedtime.

Annoying thing is then with some items is that they don't re-power, they come back in "stand-by" Why not just switch ?

[longbridge]

Things may have been different in the UK but having worked for a Pawnbrokers for 13 years up until 2010 I cant think of one TV that had a AC Power on/off switch, like others I use our power points as a Kill Switch every night.

[Farmer Giles]

My first PC came with a instruction manual for the PC manual. I had to read the manual manual before I could understand the PC manual, after about two days I threw them both away and worked out how to use the PC using common sense.

I did buy a camera of Amazon a few years ago which was less thanhalf normal price because it came with a French manual. That didn't matter partly because I am am not a camera novice and partly because my wife is a translator (French and Spanish), when the camera arrived it came with a multi lingual instuction book anyway.

[Agrippa]

I bought a Garmin handheld gps receiver before I had a computer,
the instructions were on a disc.

Later I bought a Nikon dslr from Jessops and the salesman advised
me to get a manual from a bookshop as the one that came with the
camera was useless, like an extremely thick chequebook printed in
grey and white. The book cost about £12 but is very good with full
colour illustrations of the various procedures on the screen,still
a pain though.

As an amusing afternote I bought a jar of wholegrain mustard
last week, the label gave the various ingredients, and below
that was a note on allergy advice stating "Contains mustard".

[Farmer Giles]

I bought a Garmin handheld gps receiver before I had a computer,
the instructions were on a disc.


As an amusing afternote I bought a jar of wholegrain mustard
last week, the label gave the various ingredients, and below
that was a note on allergy advice stating "Contains mustard".

My uncle was given a hand made Christmas cracker a couple of years ago in which was a miniature bottle of whisky, on the label was a warning, "This product may contain alcohol" My uncle's response, "I should bloody well hope so!"

[Agrippa]

 

[MinZaPint]

Went to Heathrow T4 to pick up me pal coming back from India, waited in the "Windsor Castle", Wetherspoons pub our usual meeting point, nice but pricy pint even after using my CAMRA vouchers, looked at the condiments on the table, "English Mustard" read label to find "made in Germany" ! how mad is that?  & 

[scotsoft]

Went to Heathrow T4 to pick up me pal coming back from India, waited in the "Windsor Castle", Wetherspoons pub our usual meeting point, nice but pricy pint even after using my CAMRA vouchers, looked at the condiments on the table, "English Mustard" read label to find "made in Germany" ! how mad is that?  & 

Look on the bright side, if things had gone differently it could have been:

Brätwurst made in England 

[Jerry Howlett]

Thats made Mrs H blood boil!!

[EddieA]

Things may have been different in the UK but having worked for a Pawnbrokers for 13 years up until 2010 I cant think of one TV that had a AC Power on/off switch, like others I use our power points as a Kill Switch every night.

Only thing is that if I switch off my TV at the mains for any length of time (overnight!) I have to retune the inbuilt Freeview 'digi-box'. Why can't they have a set of rechargable batteries in the set which keeps the digi-box memory going when powered off and which charge when it is on? (is there an asking the bleeding obvious smiley available ) 

[EddieA]

But I still need to get a replacement 

Is that cable or cat???

Both    Anyone want a slightly singed ginger moggie ?  Answers to the name of "Oy, don't eat that !!!"

Been there! My two felines (now both sadly gone recently to the cat basket in the sky after some 18 years each happy lives) used to answer to the names of 'Don't do that' and 'Get down', when they were kittens...

They did learn!

[Pengi]

Approximately 350 n scale people have ended up on a patterned carpet

[MikeDunn]

"Quick lads - camouflage !"