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Timothy Murphy writes:

I recently bought Aldi's power meter,
which I have found quite instructive -
I was surprised that my Sky box and TV
took 20 watts each in standby.

Set top boxes are imfamous for not reducing power consumption
in standby mode, and are probably largely resposible for the
current standby hysteria. Most modern TV's reduce their standby
power to negligable levels in standby mode or they can't be
sold in a number of countries. How old is your TV?

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Andrew Gabriel
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