[Novalug] OT - cmos battery in TV?

Ed James edward.james@gmail.com
Thu May 5 15:16:00 EDT 2011


Unless ya want the set to maintain some kind of real time clock.

Ed James

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Dave Aronson <tux2dave@davearonson.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 08:50, Jason Kohles <jkohles@palantir.com> wrote:
>
>> Memory that doesn't require power to keep it set is dirt cheap.  Think of
>> all the settings you could store on the cheapest piece of crap giveaway
>> thumb drive you've received..
>
> D'oh!  Right you are.  Dunno WHAT I was thinking.  So... no good
> reason for TVs to need a battery to maintain settings.
>
> -Dave
>
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