The television will shut off by itself. At times it won't cut off by using the remote or trying to turn it off manually. She is having to actually unplug the television from the outlet. We have read several complaints involving this and have been looking this televisioin up. We would recommend not buying a Magnavox product. It is a defective product from the manufacturing plant and magnavox doesn't stand behind their product and customer support is rude and will not acknowledge a recall but if you google this you will see these... read full review »