The power on the telly is off completely but it’s very possible that there may have been dust in the HDMI socket as it hasn’t been used for years - could that have made a safety system kick in and shut the telly down completely? I have come across electric blankets that have such a safety feature so you have to throw them out when they stop working, but didn’t know smart telly’s had it too.
Phew indeed! I was worried how this story would end - BOOM!
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Nothing that I know of or have read about.
I wonder if there is a geek school of electronics where students want to learn why this sort of thing happens. It’s not worth paying a leccy fixer + VAT when I can get a replacement for £150. All this just for the sake of binge watching the White Lotus on DVD as it’s not on Netflix!
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Could be a static discharge Annie…
Any thoughts on this Mart and Primus?
@AnnieS Name and model number of TV please Annie as some have internal fuses to protect the circuitry.
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It’s a Panasonic 32 Inch TX-32FS400B Smart HD Ready TV with HDR. 7 years old so I guess these days that’s a good run.
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Great news! I’ve worked out what has happened watching this video - I didn’t even know there was a power button on the back of the telly! Who has ever looked at that?! I must have nudged it when I was moving it sideways 
Now I just have to phone Argos to cancel my TV purchase…
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Well that was easy. Order cancelled with a few clicks on the phone call. I didn’t even have to speak to anyone.
thanks for your support and hopefully this telly will be good for a while longer!
By the way I recommend White Lotus - fantastic show, but be careful how you watch it so you don’t break the telly 
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It could be I suppose, although not anything I’ve come across personally. Some TVs even have a mains switch on the back and it might have got knocked when plugging the lead in. Hard to say without actually being there. There’s no real substitute for that. If I was still a TV engineer and local, I’d have offered to take a look without charge.
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yes that’s exactly what happened. I had no idea it was there as it was around the time that I bought this telly that they started removing the on/off buttons.
All working great now that I figured it out with the help of this you tuber who seems to solve lots of tech conundrums.
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Pleased to hear it Annie 
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Well I’m not a TV engineer Annie, but if your kettle still works I would come and have a look at your telly…
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Don’t some of these new smart telly’s have the same microprocessors as computers Mart?
Very susceptible to damage from static discharge.
I remember with the old CRT telly’s it was the other way round and it was you who suffered from the discharge if you were careless…
I’m not familiar with the workings of flat screen TVs but have had years of plugging in things using HDMI leads. Lots of interconnecting stuff in the mart household (plus friends relatives and neighbours places). The TVs have microprocessors but I’m fairly sure that plugging in an HDMI lead wouldn’t do any internal damage, even if the lead isn’t presented quite right.
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It was just a shot in the dark Mart, even though I find Annie ‘fully charged’
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Yes, Annie is switched on all right 
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Only the pin up girl for Over Fifties Forum…
Never used to be spooked by a Siren, I’m a bit reticent now 
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Don’t see many game birds now, just the occasional pheasant 