sky plus standby

happilass

Hi,
i have recently had sky plus installed and the man told me not to swithch it off at the wall when not in use. I usually do this with the TV and DVD player when I'm not using them. Is this the correct info. or can I swithch them off, to save leccy?
Thanks,
Happi

leosayer39

Hi happilass

If you switch it off at the wall, it wont be able to record anything that may be due for recording.

If you put it into standby, it will still record any programmes that may be on a series link or whatever

HTH

Leo

julie1075

Plus the system downloads overnight I believe, the things on Anytime tv, etc. Also if you switch it off it will be like re-booting your computer and not sure that too much of that will do it any harm. It does go into a low power standyby, I remember reading when I got mine. HTH

happilass

hi,
thanks for these replies, I'll keep it on I think,
Happi

salerbil

I always put mine on standby to save energy-

Check this out;



Environmentally friendly feature for Sky plus and Sky HD customers

• News

NEWS: 21 March 2007 ... Sky is to help customers reduce their household energy bills with the introduction of a new feature called "Auto Standby" that will automatically switch inactive Sky HD and Sky+ boxes into Standby mode overnight.

The new feature monitors whether people are using their Sky+ or Sky HD box overnight between 11.00pm and 4.00am. If the box has not been used for a period of two hours after 11.00pm, an "Auto Standby" warning will pop-up on screen for 3 minutes. If there is no further use the box will go into Standby mode automatically.

Although users won’t be able to switch off the unit due to the electronic programme guide needing power on all the time, the feature, which is the company’s latest step to reduce its own impact on the environment, will be introduced to more than 2 million customers' boxes in phases over the next few months.

It will be sent automatically to all Sky HD boxes from tomorrow and then to all Sky+ boxes, in stages, from mid-April and throughout the Summer.

Sky say that the new "Auto Standby" feature could save enough energy to light all the homes in Wolverhampton or power all the washing machines in Liverpool for a year.

It could also slash £7.5 million from customers' electricity bills and reduce the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 32,000 tonnes a year.

Frances Galvanoni from the Energy Saving Trust said: "What's great about this is that the consumer doesn't have to worry about remembering to turn it off standby as Sky has built the functionality into the product. This is a welcome step and shows how seriously Sky takes it responsibility to the Environment. Energy efficient appliances use less power and are cheaper to run. And because they need less energy, they're responsible for fewer greenhouse gas emissions - this is good news for the environment and good news for Sky's customers".

However not all manufacturers are taking the Green route, Samsung’s latest range of televisions launched at CeBIT in Germany don’t come with an off switch, just Standby.

Marty_J

salerbil wrote: »

I always put mine on standby to save energy

I always turn mine off to save energy.