Explain odd TV behavior....?

E-Mail my mom just sent me. Wondering if anyone can help me out here:





The tv in our bedroom keeps turning on and shutting off when we walk in and out of the room and in the middle of the night. We walk into the room - it turns on - we start to walk out and ignore it - it turns off. I took the batteries out of the remote thinking it had something to do with weak batteries and electronic eye or something, but before I took the batteries out I mute the tv to answer the phone - it mutes, then unmutes as I'm hanging up.





Any ideas?|||you really need the answer to that?! what you really need is an education.|||Maybe she has it plugged into a receptacle that is controlled by the light switch by the bedroom door. Or it could be the " relay" inside the TV where the signal from the remote goes in to do what you wanted it to do. The relay was going on a TV we had a while ago, and it was turning itself on %26amp; off, %26amp; finally it wouldn't turn on at all. I hope this helps.|||Hi Meggybucks,





Have you put anything else that might be using infrared or radio signals in the room. A wireless phone, thermometer, wireless Internet or anything like that?





Find the little infrared window on the front of the set and put a piece of paper in front of it. See if that stops it. If it doesn't there must be a short in the set.





I would be interested in what you find out.





Good luck,





Norm|||Possible sources of the problem:





Infared devices such as security devices monitoring the room are interferring with the set.





Florescent light is turned on and off when they enter the room and as it is turned on it causes a burst of light that the set picks up (this either means the light needs to be repaired or the set may have to be sent back for repair). If it is the set it is very rare but I have seen this happen with another infared device once.





Someone is watching your parents walk in and out who has another remote and is turning the set on and off. Creepy but can be elimated if the window curtains are closed.|||have you ever watched a haunting? ghosts like to do those things take a tape recorder and tape record in your bed room if you here weird voices its ghosts you may whant to call a parinormal investigator