You Did What to the TV?

You did What to the TV?

This last summer, the TV started not turning on at my parents house. 

They tried all the standard stuff, unplugging it, checking for obvious damage and so on. They tried to get it to turn on, and every once in a great while it would actually would click on. However, turning it off would pretty much guarantee that you wouldn't see the luminous glow of 1080p entertainment for a lengthy amount of time. 

So after clicking the remote countless times, the TV would sometimes turn on, but not without the ever present fear of the TV not turning on again, once it was turned off.

I came to visit, uninformed of the situation, and switched the TV off. 

This resulted in a frustrated raised voice from my dad, "Seriously, you just did that?!"
This, coming from the same guy who seemed so concerned about turning off lights, and fans, saving hot water, and killing all electrical flow to items that were not in use, so I think it could be understandably stated that it threw me for a loop. 

Now, my dad is pretty handy, and he found out about a week earlier through 20 minutes of good hard "googling" that he could get his TV to turn on with a hairdryer.

Of course, I knew nothing of this, so I was shocked to hear him grumble his way down the hallway saying something about "..now I gotta get this crap, and do it again!"
Imagine my amusement as he returned with my mom's hot pink and black hair dryer in his hand!
He plugged it in and started chuckling explaining the situation to me through laughter!
The funny part was, it worked!

Apparently many people have had the same issue with the same model TV, its a humidity sensor attached to the power supply. 

So I would like to thank Sony, for giving us a good laugh, and a crappy power supply!