A television apparatus for controlling the power status during a sequence of time based programmed events.

摘要

A television apparatus including a register for storing a plurality of events, each event indicating both time and an operation to be conducted by the television apparatus at that time. Comprising a power supply operable to power the television apparatus selectively in a powered-up state s16, s18 or a standby state s10, and a controller arranged so as, in response to a clock reaching a time s14 stored for one of said events, to control the power supply to switch from the standby state s10 to the powered-up state and to cause the respective operation s20 to be conducted by the television apparatus. The television apparatus is arranged to store information indicating, for at least the stored event having the latest time s22, whether to switch to the standby state s10 or a shutdown state s26, the power supply being shut down in the shutdown state s26. The controller is arranged so as, in response to completion of the respective operation of the stored event having the latest time s22, to control the power supply to switch from the powered-up state to, according to said information, either the standby state s10 or the shutdown state s26. Also disclosed is a method of operating the apparatus and a computer program for carrying out the method.