re: Netflix won’t play on TV.

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flux capacitor

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Capacitors are designed to retain a charge, of varying amounts. Vendors will tell you leave stuff unplugged for 5-10 minutes to allow that charge to dissipate, which then clears non persistent memory, and "reboots" your device. Depending on the board designer, the amount of time may be 5 seconds, or five minutes needed.

With tube TVs that required a lot of power, plenty of people electrocuted themselves by unplugging the TV, and then sticking screwdrivers in it, which discharged the capacitor(s) and shocked the *f* out of them. But you didn't ask about any of the background