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Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:35:38 -0000, "John Russell"
wrote: Yes, but a lot of people probably keep them running during the day anyway. You mean some people just turn the TV off (sorry put it in standby) and forget about the digibox? Haven't you seen people in films and TV dramas when they switch a computer off? They just push a button on the monitor (and I've seen plenty of people do this in real life too), so to most viewers this is a clear demonstration of the right thing to do. Rod. |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:41:20 +0000, Roderick Stewart
wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:37:29 +0000, Mark Goodge wrote: They'll be pleased - remember, they made a PROFIT from their 0870 numbers. Every incoming call is more money for them. Where is this mystical call centre where the staff are paid 2p per minute or less, then? Not all the time on the call will require the attention of call centre staff. The caller is paying for the privilege of being on hold, but it isn't costing the company anything to keep them on hold. Isn't there a law now about how long a premium number phone service is allowed to keep a caller on hold? Rod. 0870 numbers are not premium rate numbers they are non-geographical numbers charged at national call rates. -- Nigel Barker Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
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Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:41:20 +0000, Roderick Stewart wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:37:29 +0000, Mark Goodge wrote: They'll be pleased - remember, they made a PROFIT from their 0870 numbers. Every incoming call is more money for them. Where is this mystical call centre where the staff are paid 2p per minute or less, then? Not all the time on the call will require the attention of call centre staff. The caller is paying for the privilege of being on hold, but it isn't costing the company anything to keep them on hold. Isn't there a law now about how long a premium number phone service is allowed to keep a caller on hold? Rod. 0870 numbers are not premium rate numbers they are non-geographical numbers charged at national call rates. ITYM *former* national call rates. Actual maximum national call rates on geographical numbers are heavily discounted by most telecom providers. -- Max Demian |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:07:09 GMT, Paul Hyett
wrote: Hopefully it won't affect standard boxes, otherwise I may have to program a universal remote to send a signal every so often... No need, I'd imagine you'd be able to turn it off in the menus somewhere. -- |
Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today
I think these days if you did that you'd go into sleep mode before the sky
box -- Protected by www.Spamjab.com {1ClyzYGhYG9yw5arEQ} "ChrisM" wrote in message ... In message , Ed Proclaimed from the tallest tower: SKY is to introduce technology that automatically switches digital boxes to standby mode overnight - slashing energy bills by £7.5MILLION a year. The boxes will go to "sleep" after 11pm if they detect they have not been used for two hours. The technology will be transmitted to Sky HD boxes from today and to all Sky+ boxes from April - a total of more than two million. Sky said Auto Standby could save enough energy to light all the homes in Wolverhampton for a year. It could also cut UK carbon emissions by 32,000 tons a year. How can it tell if you're watching it or not?? By the fact that you haven't pressed any buttons in two hours? What happens if you've just decided to sit down and watch one channel all evening? -- Regards, Chris. (Remove Elvis's shoes to email me) |
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. |
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