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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 941933" data-attributes="member: 18896">@<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/micropolis.96567/" target="_blank">Micropolis</a>, I noticed you had support for Samsung SmartTV listed in changelog, so I'm hoping this also applies to my Samsung dumbTV (same model, but they stripped out the smart stuff to make it cheaper).&nbsp;Currently I'm just blanking the screen when there has been no activity for a long time, because if I turn the TV 'off' via MePo settings, it takes a minimum amount of 15 minutes for the Samsung dumbTV to display a bright &quot;signal lost&quot; error before it shuts itself off. For some reason Samsung does not allow the eco brightness setting to take effect then, so it is such a bright error that it lights up entire room and then wakes my wife up who might have dosed off watching something. The MePo box has a super high WAF, so I had to go with blanking-screen setting.&nbsp;But even on this nice LED system with HDMI black levels set to low, the blanking of screen setting gives a relative high greyish wash to the screen from light leakage, so to maximize lifespan and limit LED usage I really want to kick in the standby mode that my old analog TV gave me. So not a full shut-off, but a resumable standby that turns the screen off without any darn Samsung OSD error messages, so that pressing resume on a long pause that made the screen blank as well, does not require my wife to fumble for the TV power on/off button.&nbsp;TV in question = <a href="http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/UN55EH6001FXZA" target="_blank">http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/UN55EH6001FXZA</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 941933, member: 18896"] @[URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/micropolis.96567/']Micropolis[/URL], I noticed you had support for Samsung SmartTV listed in changelog, so I'm hoping this also applies to my Samsung dumbTV (same model, but they stripped out the smart stuff to make it cheaper). Currently I'm just blanking the screen when there has been no activity for a long time, because if I turn the TV 'off' via MePo settings, it takes a minimum amount of 15 minutes for the Samsung dumbTV to display a bright "signal lost" error before it shuts itself off. For some reason Samsung does not allow the eco brightness setting to take effect then, so it is such a bright error that it lights up entire room and then wakes my wife up who might have dosed off watching something. The MePo box has a super high WAF, so I had to go with blanking-screen setting. But even on this nice LED system with HDMI black levels set to low, the blanking of screen setting gives a relative high greyish wash to the screen from light leakage, so to maximize lifespan and limit LED usage I really want to kick in the standby mode that my old analog TV gave me. So not a full shut-off, but a resumable standby that turns the screen off without any darn Samsung OSD error messages, so that pressing resume on a long pause that made the screen blank as well, does not require my wife to fumble for the TV power on/off button. TV in question = [B][url]http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/UN55EH6001FXZA[/url][/B] [/QUOTE]

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