Apple TV (4K version 3) Remote won’t turn on Samsung TV when TV has been off a long time

After long time, SOLVED!

Technically Samsung caused problem *because* when the 95D TV turned off, it also turned the CEC/Anynet+ off. 

Duh!

So now the Siri Remote couldn’t communicate with TV over the HDMI cable. Or any other non-Samsung remote for that matter.

No CEC -> no turn on of TV. 

FWIW the Samsung Remote always worked because their remote communicated directly with their TV via Infared and never used CEC. Their use of CEC/Anynet+ came into focus after their TV was on at which time their TV sent a turn on signal to the Apple TV device.

So what did the Apple ATV programmers do to correct this problem? = they 1st sent a CEC turn on signal to TV before relaying the turn on signal from the Siri Remote. 

HOORAH!!

NEW ostv

version 18.4, build 20

This fixed problem

You know what -

I have to loudly shout praise for Apple Engineering because I know with certainty that they are trying to diagnose this problem.

The total opposite from Samsung with whom I have talked on the phone. In fact there are a whole bunch of folk who own the Samsung S95D with the above deep sleep problem.

These customers state they have reported this problem to Samsung. Yet Samsung claims they have zero reports on this issue.

?????

We’re talking their flagship model whose sales drive their company wide bottom line and to ignore this problem is a marketing disaster in the making.

Makes zero sense to me

Latest maintenance update tvOS 17.3.1 didn’t remove problem