Given what I understand the power of the machine inside these TVs to be, there&#x27;s no reason a large-enough Linux shouldn&#x27;t boot in a few seconds.<p>The manufacturer could get even smarter and use something like CRIU [0], along with opportunistic hybrid suspend [1] to dramatically speed up start times.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;criu.org&#x2F;Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;criu.org&#x2F;Main_Page</a><p>[1] Which would work like this: A little while after you power your TV off, it suspends to RAM, and disk. If you power your TV on, the system TV restores its state from RAM. If AC power goes out, when AC power is restored and stable, the TV performs a background operation that uses the on-disk suspend image to get back to its hybrid suspend state.