That puts the device to "sleep" after a period of inactivity. It typically is based on channels not being changed for a particular period of time. In most cases, it is something you typically can turn off or sometimes modify in the device's settings.

In addition, some TVs have a "presence" sensor that detects motion or even body heat within a certain distance of the television and, after a period of not detecting any presence, will shut down as an energy savings measure.

Still weird.

They have a lot of connectivity and other capabilities. Like someone said, you may want to turn off some features.

Neither of us can crawl on our knees to the lower shelf which is where the cable box is and all the connection to the wall. (This is a 35 year old house..)

Two weeks ago we go a cable guy because there was a message on the screen about update that would not go away. Well.. it was the TV, not the cable. But, once here, the cable guy checked everything, found the router operating at a very low level so the visit was not a waste. And he changed the TV from being "smart" to "average." Stop sending us messages about update...

Yeah, we are dinosaurs.

I am an engineer, but if I don't have to fiddle with me tv or phone for a year, I am perfectly happy. And I design some aspects of pretty advanced research and development equipment. There are just some things that I don't get psyched about.

think i have seen it on sling as well

My TV is not connected to the box, except by the HDMI cable, and that goes through the AV receiver. My AV receiver has never seen a disruption, absent the electric going off.

However, the rec room TV (and all others i think) has a sleep mode, and the TV in our bedroom has a "wallpaper mode" where the screen goes to a sort of screen saver if no channels have been changed or any other function used in the last couple hours. Keeps the TV from drawing extra juice when somebody (yes, i mean my wife) leaves to go to the doctor and then shopping without turning off the TV!

Always assume someone is watching and get used to it because they might be...but in this case I think they just have a motion detector or something built in that is seeing if you are still in the room. Our Best thermostat has that as one of the ways they try to tell if you are home or not.

They spy on your Internet traffic, they sell what shows you watch, do you buy/rent movies from them etc.

that says there has been no activity for 4 hours. If I press the select button it will continue for another 4 hours unless I change the channel. It doesn’t matter if I’m sitting in front of it or not.

If there is no response when this notice comes on the tv will put itself into sleep mode saying there is no signal.

All it takes to wake it up is pressing on the select button.