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nutbastard
07/08/09

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im assuming the IR receiver in your TV runs off an onboard battery?

because if it isn't, it seems to me you wouldn't be able to turn on the TV 'wirelessly' either, since it depends on the IR remote.

xbox is RF, TV is IR - it's six or half a dozen as far as i can tell.
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Eavangel
07/08/09

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I thought it was bad to just shut off a console during mid-use. You wouldn't just power off your pc by pulling out the plug, why is that a good option for a console? My TV costs $1200 and my PS3 another $400... i don't have the kind of money to go out and replace $1600 worth the electronics because a $35 power saver cuts out the power to these expensive items like a power outage and potentially causes harm to it...

I'll stick to charging my controllers on some stand i got (that i leave unplugged until i need to use them) and flipping the rocker switch on the back of the Console.

I do like turning on my console with the controller though...
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Rob Gomes
07/08/09

@Eavangel:

You don't do it for a computer because there's running processes that want to be terminated gracefully. The OS could be running apps made by any idiot that knows enough to be dangerous and programs things to not be that robust. So data corruption can occur.

With a console, their operating systems and utilities are designed with "the user could shut this off at any flipping time" in mind. Consoles just care about save game states and firmware updates -- and they do warn you to not remove memory cards or shut the thing off while it's occurring.
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ceilingFANBOY
07/09/09

@Rob Gomes: If nothing else, it is harmful to turn the system off mid-use because of the hard drive and disk drive. The platters on the hard drive, the game in the system, and the motors driving the hard drive or disk could get damaged or worn out if the system repeatedly had it's power cut off while running.
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