I used to use the remote control to put my TV on standby. I don't watch hours and hours of TV, so it was on standby for at least 20 hours per day. I don't know how much electricity it was using to remain in this mode, but no doubt I was paying for it. Now I have an extension cord with an on/off switch. My TV, DVD player, X-box, etc. are plugged into it and I turn this off, which essentially cuts all power to these units. When I'm not watching TV, they're not on standby...they're all the way off. But I'm wondering whether in the long term this is good or bad for my TV? It's a 94cm plasma screen that was fairly expensive when I bought it and I wouldn't want it to have a short life just because I'm no longer using standby mode. I watch TV fairly often, but perhaps not every day. It's on in the morning during breakfast and, when I'm home in the evening, I might watch the news and a movie. When you think about it, over the course of, say, five years, I'm going to turn it on and off maybe three or four thousand times. Do manufacturers test for this in the factory and are these TVs designed so that they can withstand this? Or should I go back to standby mode and higher electricity bills?