Old Sky+ Box - an observation on power use.

jrawle

wrf12345 said:
I much prefer binge watching series than real time TV so no great loss and the Beeb I do not miss (Radio 4 is still available, hurray!) so the £160 I save on the licence offsets the extra £100 in standing charges that the energy companies are stealing off me. When s/c's are phased out then I will buy amazon prime rather than the TV licence. I think the Beeb is on a slippery slope because once people get used to on-demand TV they are unlikely to miss real-time TV. You have to pay for the internet but I would be paying that anyway and use 4G where prices are way down compared to a couple of years ago.

So you will be happy if the unit cost of energy increases so as to increase your energy bill by £200 per year, as long as standing charges are abolished? Then you will pay for Amazon prime, which is in effect 100% standing charge? Perhaps you should look for a pay per view TV service!

CSI_Yorkshire

jrawle said:

wrf12345 said:
I much prefer binge watching series than real time TV so no great loss and the Beeb I do not miss (Radio 4 is still available, hurray!) so the £160 I save on the licence offsets the extra £100 in standing charges that the energy companies are stealing off me. When s/c's are phased out then I will buy amazon prime rather than the TV licence. I think the Beeb is on a slippery slope because once people get used to on-demand TV they are unlikely to miss real-time TV. You have to pay for the internet but I would be paying that anyway and use 4G where prices are way down compared to a couple of years ago.

So you will be happy if the unit cost of energy increases so as to increase your energy bill by £200 per year, as long as standing charges are abolished? Then you will pay for Amazon prime, which is in effect 100% standing charge? Perhaps you should look for a pay per view TV service!

Don't worry, they'll make up all sorts of slightly plausible but completely unrealistic statements to back the same old tired arguments

bob2302

In the summer I turn-off my combi-boiler + controller most of the time and it saves over 1 kWh a day. IMO that's a ridiculous amount of standby power.