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My TV is either off to save energy, or because Android has gone completely insane again and it needs rebooting.

If you do a full hard reset of my particular TV, it can't even run its own OOTB setup smoothly. Sony have got it playing some ambient chimes in the background, but the audio constantly breaks up and glitches.

Its got an 8 core processor and it can't even handle audio playback in a bit of the UI which should have had heavy QA.

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I get that. the point is that turning a TV on, even if it took 30 seconds, is basically nothing given the amount of time you spend watching it. it's not the right thing to optimize.

do you know how long it takes to turn on an iPhone? you may have a stroke if I tell you.

Turning on a TV is something you usually do everytime you want to use it, and it's just plain annoying to have to wait. The comparison to an iPhone is bad, because you rarely reboot it. Imagine you had to wait for the iPhone to boot every time you want to read some stuff on the internet or call someone.

Idk, my smart tv takes less than 10 seconds to turn on. If you had a dumb tv you’d turn that on, but how long does a smart dongle take? My Google tv takes about as long as my smart tv

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