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Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 Mark Hewitt wrote:
I don't know how Sky works it, but what the Virgin V+ box does is that after midnight if the box isn't being used it shuts down the hard drive and various other bits, but it doesn't shut off the picture it just puts "Resting" on the screen at the bottom left. Does the V+ box respond to channel change commands while in this state, or does it need to be brought out of 'standby' with the power button? If the latter, can the auto-resting feature be disabled? I'm considering upgrading to V+ this year but would probably keep my TiVo connected -- at least in the short term -- for recording radio programmes to transfer to PC. But TiVo doesn't know how to wake up a sleeping STB :( -- Kev __________________________________________________ ________________________ "Japanese Sushi sale, new and used Japanese Sushi. Check out the deals now!" Online advert for eBay |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
Ed wrote:
SKY is to introduce technology that automatically switches digital boxes to standby mode overnight - slashing energy bills by £7.5MILLION a year. As of November 2006 Sky had 8.26 million subscribers, of which 1.69 million had Sky+ (which include 96,000 Sky+ HD subscribers). £7.5M per year, over 1.69M Sky+ subscribers = about £4.44 per subscriber per year, or 8.5p per week/1.2p per day. Not much difference to the end user, but collectively it makes a bit of a difference. D |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:01:34 -0000, "JohnT"
wrote: What happens if you've just decided to sit down and watch one channel all evening? I assume that they will go to sleep only from Standby. If I sat down to watch one channel all evening, the most likely result would be that *I* would go to sleep first. Rod. |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
Tivo can wake up a standby sky+ if you use the correct setting
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Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
David wrote on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:33:41 +0000:
Ed wrote: SKY is to introduce technology that automatically switches digital boxes to standby mode overnight - slashing energy bills by £7.5MILLION a year. As of November 2006 Sky had 8.26 million subscribers, of which 1.69 million had Sky+ (which include 96,000 Sky+ HD subscribers). £7.5M per year, over 1.69M Sky+ subscribers = about £4.44 per subscriber per year, or 8.5p per week/1.2p per day. Not much difference to the end user, but collectively it makes a bit of a difference. D Which assumes that nobody ever switches the Sky+/HD box off at night. Am I in the minority in that I *do* switch mine to standby? It's not that I make an effort specifically to do so, I just have my Pronto configured with an OFF button that switches everything to standby and I hit that on my way to bed :P Dan |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
In uk.media.tv.misc on Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Dom Robinson wrote :
I'm considering upgrading to V+ this year but would probably keep my TiVo connected -- at least in the short term -- for recording radio programmes to transfer to PC. But TiVo doesn't know how to wake up a sleeping STB :( Mine can. I have a Panasonic digibox but I told it I have a Grundig one and it sends out a 'Sky' signal first, so if the box has crashed for any reason then it'll wake up for the next recording. But what if it's already awake - won't it then be switched off? -- Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
In article , Spack
writes David wrote on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:33:41 +0000: Ed wrote: SKY is to introduce technology that automatically switches digital boxes to standby mode overnight - slashing energy bills by £7.5MILLION a year. As of November 2006 Sky had 8.26 million subscribers, of which 1.69 million had Sky+ (which include 96,000 Sky+ HD subscribers). £7.5M per year, over 1.69M Sky+ subscribers = about £4.44 per subscriber per year, or 8.5p per week/1.2p per day. Not much difference to the end user, but collectively it makes a bit of a difference. D Which assumes that nobody ever switches the Sky+/HD box off at night. Am I in the minority in that I *do* switch mine to standby? It's not that I make an effort specifically to do so, I just have my Pronto configured with an OFF button that switches everything to standby and I hit that on my way to bed :P I don't, mine's on pretty much 24/7. I've got a TiVo connected to it, so more often than not it's in use anyway. I do switch my TV off, rather than into standby when I'm not using it, unless it's only for a short time, then I will use standby, or if I'm using the timer on the integrated Freeview tuner, which will only if the TV is on or in standby. -- Sean Black |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:49:12 +0000, Edster wrote:
According to the BBC, only 30% of a programme's viewers will continue watching that channel after the end credits start. I don't know if Surely that's more to do with the BBC (and others) appalling timekeeping between channels, forcing users to change early to avoid missing another wanted programme? Rgds Jonathan |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
Paul Hyett wrote:
In uk.media.tv.misc on Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Dom Robinson wrote : I'm considering upgrading to V+ this year but would probably keep my TiVo connected -- at least in the short term -- for recording radio programmes to transfer to PC. But TiVo doesn't know how to wake up a sleeping STB :( Mine can. I have a Panasonic digibox but I told it I have a Grundig one and it sends out a 'Sky' signal first, so if the box has crashed for any reason then it'll wake up for the next recording. But what if it's already awake - won't it then be switched off? No, not if it's sent a 'Sky' signal. |
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