Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
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.

A chum used to design cable set top boxes. He said that when the box
was put into standby mode two things happened :

video and sound outputs were stopped
an led came on to indicate the box was in standby mode

No power saving at all.

Guy
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Guy Dawson I.T. Manager Crossflight Ltd