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    Jan 3, 2012, 12:47 PM
    My TV keeps turning on by itself why?
    My TV has been turning its self on for the past few months, now I got a new set on iPod speakers for my christmas and when my iPod is playing the music will turn up down and change song on its own, also when my TV turns its self on the volume is right down at 0 my TV is never on 0, this has not stopped since I took my batteries out my remote so I don't know how this is happing could someone help please
    Thank you
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    Jan 3, 2012, 12:50 PM
    Well its not a ghost...

    Theey work on infrared signals... and something as simple as the sun or something that generates heat like a space heater pointed at it cuasing what you see.
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    Jan 3, 2012, 12:54 PM
    Thank u,but it can not be the sun because I have black curtains and they are always closed
    So I don't no about that.
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    Jan 3, 2012, 12:58 PM
    The last time I heard about this... someone had a remote get squeezed between the cushions on their couch.

    You have something generating Infared signals (which are invisible) that is causing issues. A remote with a stuck button can do it... (until the batteries die)
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    Jan 3, 2012, 01:03 PM
    After a few times of this happin I took the batteries out my remote so it can not be a stuck button. Because there are no batteries there to turn it on (and I know infared signals are invisible)
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    Jan 3, 2012, 01:14 PM
    Its always the one you forget about being around... it can be a remote for a different device. Particularly as the batteries get weak...
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    Jan 3, 2012, 03:05 PM
    I don't think you are understanding me both my remotes have no batteries I took them all out a few weeks after it happened, I was thinking it was something to do with my TV that it might have a fault. But thank you for your help.
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    Jan 3, 2012, 07:50 PM
    I got my degree in electronic Engineering 30 years ago... what I've trying to do is identify what you have in the area of the TV that might generate Infared that would interfere with both your TV and Ipod. There actually was someone here that had a remote they forgot about in the couch, that was causing them problems.

    Problems with ONE item could be a fault or defect... but two different objects are never going to develop the same fault at the same time.
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    Apr 29, 2012, 04:03 AM
    My tiv keeps doing this to, but a excactly 12:00am or at least 5 minutes past or so, and its really starting to creep me out, usually its on music TV or just static with like radio sound or something it keeps happening usually when nobody else is home and I'm just sitting there by myself on my computer... I have no idea what it is and its bloody scary
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