Is it safe to just switch off tv at wall socket?

My wife has a habit of switching everything off at the wall socket. So if I get an tv, it will be switched off randomly at the wall.
Is this safe to do? is there a standby button on the tv? how do you switch it off? I dont want here just switching it off at wall socket when its in the middle of reading/writing to HDD as surely this will damage it?
cheers

how can stopping a hard drive without 1st preparing it to be stopped ever be healthy for a device? how can increasing the possibility of interrupting data transfers in the middle of a transfer and increasing the possibility of corrupting data ever be a good thing?
the OP said that the power could be yanked at any old time.. i can't understand how you can say that would be a good thing for an appleTV.
i also run mine 24/7 and my device is solid as a rock.. i restart mine only by doing the press and hold menu + down button and since i stopped unplugging and re-plugging to restart it's stability has gone up markedly..
i would say to the OP.. if the power is going to be pulled in any case.. what you might want to do is press menu on the iPod Touch or appleTV remote for about 10 seconds after you're done with it to make sure it's at the main menu and lessen the chance it's doing anything of significants at the moment the power goes out. you are still likely reducing the life of the hard drive by constantly turning it off and on.. hard drives are designed to run constantly all the time.. spinning them up and down only reduces their lifespan.

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