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Originally Posted by TonyDuell
I remember one of my relatives rented a (colour) TV set where the remote control could turn it off but not on. Pressing the off button caused the power button on the set to pop out to the 'off' position with a loud click. Although (obviously) I never took the back off, I suspect there was a solenoid on the on/off switch that released the normal latching mechanism.
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My parents had a Goodmans set that did this.
It had an annoying habit of picking up IR signals & randomly changing channel or turning itself off!
Normally my Dad likes to make sure he's buying decent electronic equipment, so this was a rare exception to the rule. It lasted just over a decade as a 2nd set, mostly as a monitor for our Acorn Electron & for my brother to use while at university, before the picture started to shrink & was binned in the late 1990s.