Our TV turns ON all by itself!... Does anyone elses?

hahaha, it's eating up all your electricity... i think that tv was made to scam you..

Ok that sounds scarey to me LOL Maybe the "on" button is stuck or something. I know I would be a little freaked out about that if it happened to me.

I bet it is No I have never had that happen to a TV I have had it that it changed Channels but that Problem was solved when we found out the Neighbour had the same TV so every time I changed Channel theirs changed and when they changed it back to what they where watching it would change mine We only found out because a few Days later she said to me that their TV keeps changing Channel, I asked her what type she has lol and then we found out So we moved the TVs round so it would not be in signal way

Sounds pretty weird. Have you been watching the movie Poltergeist? I have had TV sets that you could program to turn on at a certain time. Sort of like you do with your radio-alarm clock. When I worked the early shift, I used to program the coffee to start perking, and the TV to come on to CNN about ten minutes later. I got up at the same time as the coffee pot started, would shower, and then pour a cup of coffee and the news would be on waiting for me. Two things to check on your TV. Check to see if your TV is like the one I had, and maybe it has a default setting from factory that programmed it to turn it on. If it does, try setting the option to off. Second, while you may have it plugged into a surge protector, that protects (hopefully) the items plugged into it from voltage surges like lightning strikes near your home. The surge protector does not protect things from brown outs and other small fluctuations in power level. You can add a UPS - uninterruptable power source - also called battery back-ups. A UPS conditions the power besides providing surge protection. You can get UPS at a computer store. They run in the 40-70 dollar range that would take care of your TV and VCR. One last thing is remote controls. Not so much your TV's remote but other remote controls in the neighborhood. Your neighbors' remotes for their TV-VCR-Cable ... etc, and for their garage door openers! Any of them could be the culprit. Oh, and sometimes cordless phones can cross signals with remotes too.

Oh scary. I can imagine if I were on my own and the TV suddenly came on I would jump a mile. My BF had something similar happen to him. In the last house I rang him in Spain whilst I was in the UK and he said, the lights had suddenly gone on and then they went off. That happened a couple of times, even he got a little bit worried (won't use the word scared!) but I stayed on the line until it had stopped doing it. Quite soon after that we got the house rewired and it didn't happen again. There is a logic behind everything, so they say! Anyway, I think you probably have something similar in your TV. It would still scare me though!

I haven't had it happen with a television, but twice my computer has turned itself on in the middle of the night! Its in the room of which I sleep in, so I'm sure you can imagine my fright.

Do you have anything infrared in the house? I ask because I saw this episode of Ghost Hunters where they were investigating a room and the TV kept coming on. Come to find out their infrared thermometer was making the TV turn on.

I have never heard of this before relating to T.V other than from psychic friends of mine who assure me that one of the ways a poltegeist makes itself known is by such things. However, it might well be worth letting an Electriction look at it blessed be

My TV did that a couple times, but it was always because I had accidentally hit the sleep timer and it had then turned itself off. My sister used to do that at my parent's house, so I'd jump out of my skin every time the TV would shut itself off.

Funny you should mention this, koalatbs! I have owned two of them in the past that did the same thing. Several years ago I bought a TV from my nephew that was very nice. It did not take long, however before I noticed the TV would come on by itself at times. When I asked him if the TV ever did that when he owned it he replied that it had not. The situation finally got on my nerves so badly that I put it into the shop to try and find out what was wrong with it. There was nothing wrong. Eventually I sold it. A few years later I bought another TV(brand new), and I had no problems with it until I had it for about 10 years. Suddenly it started doing the same thing. We would be upstairs in bed and all of a sudden the TV would start blaring. I was already imagining the house I lived in at the time might be haunted. I suppose it was because when I moved out the TV never came on by itself again.

Yes my telly started doing this a couple of weeks ago i would turn the t.v off go to go upstairs to bed. I would get about half way up the stairs and the telly would come on. So had to go back down and turn it off. I think this is down to a fualty switch as my youngest son has a habit of turning the telly off over and over again. So i think he has damaged the switch. It only seems to happen last thing at night.

I can imagine that it is a bit freaky! Right, the only time that my tv has ever done this was a long time ago, when I was 18, which is 15 years ago now. I had a friend around, and we were just sitting talking, my friend commented that she was a baby medium, to which I just fell off my chair laughing. She insisted she was and so I said ok then lets do a ouija board and so we did, the glass moved round the board and I was convinced it was her and just got fed up of it and said that I was not doing it anymore because she was just playing with me. She said that we had to close it down properly and that I should not have just taken my hand away, but I would not as I just did not believe it. Anyway as she was trying to get me to close it down the tv switched itself on and then off again, I said it was her that she had done it with the remote, but the remote was over the other side of the room as I had not had the tv on since I had been out earlier. Then it did it again, but it stayed on this time, but there was no picture just snow, so I went over to switch it off and then I remembered, I had unplugged it before I went out, so I checked it and sure enough the plug was out of its socket!! I immediately went back over to that board and said close it down NOW, so we did. That has stayed with me over the years more than any memory, but you know I still do not believe in ghosts or anything!!!

lol yes seems very wierd lol well mine has nevr done that and i think if iut did i would pass out or wont go bk in the house again lol haha

that is pretty freaky lol it's never happened to me I don't think. Maybe you have ghosts in your house that love watching television. XD

I thought my tv was the only one that done that.LOL.My tv started doing it when I got married it still does it and at first it freaked us out but now it doesn't bother us anymore.Our tv does it twice in one day.We always joke that the tv is posessed.LOL.

By any chance, do you live in an apartment building? Remote controls work right through walls. It is possible your neighbor could be turning on your tv without meaning to. I have proven this to be true once when staying in a hotel. We believed that the people in the room next to us must have rolled over on the remote because the tv got slowly louder and louder and louder. When it didn't seem to wake them up we used our remote, pointed it at the wall where the sound was coming from and turned down their tv. True story!

Yes, that is freaky. Is it out of warranty? Please do not forget to power off at the base as that might not be safe. We have automatic fauc ets in the bathroom and some moisture got inside one of them so it was tuning itself on for no reason for a while. That was freaky, too. I would be sitting here at the computer and suddenly hear water running 3 rooms over. When I got there it would have stopped, but the bottom of the sink would be wet. I had to take it apart and clean the contacts and dry it out and stuff. Now it works fine. DO NOT do that with your TV, lol!

No, this is a new one on me. Our TV usually turns on via kid power. :-) I'd think you ought to take it in though just in case there's some kind of a problem that's dangerous. Not to mention the additional electricity you're using!

Weird, but that sounds like you might live close to someone that might have a TV that works on the same frequency. It's sort of like a baby monitor's signal crossing with someone else's when they are on the same frequency. This can happen, especially if you live in an apartment building.

Hello all an happy holidays First time for this and sometimes everything Just got a 42 inch 1080P Philips Flat panel TV took the first one back was turning on by itself Had a Sony Just went up DON'T BUY SONY!!! Bad customer support great till it Breaks then more to repair then to buy a new will never buy SONY !!!! again tell your friends ... Any how the TV would come on took it back got another one thought it may have been defective same thing again did some reading an saw some possibilities cordless phones other remotes garage doors neighbors ETC. My problem seems to have been HMMMM! (((( My router )))) that's right check your wireless router after being awakened buy my new TV I unplugged both routers and plugged 1 at a time in yes I am up now 2:30 am it was getting annoying and so far the TV that would have come on buy now is still off so this seems to have fixed my problem at least delayed it CAN GET A LITTLE MORE SLEEP THEN I WAS LMAO If this is not the problem I will Let you all know It seems that it turned my TV on buy it self no other problems just that and also watch (Best buy) and the geek squad they will burn up your PC with the wrong products also Burned up my motherboard for yet what ya think a Sony vaio PC Hope you don't burn up your motherboard for that Very hard to find.But I rebuilt it first time for that to and first time for this HAPPY HOLIDAYS Hope this Helps someone.