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Just got the Durabrand CG5660-M freeview box, and everything works fine
except that when you put it in standby mode overnight, it won't come
out of standby. You can pull out the power supply and reconnect, but
then it loses all its settings. Leaving the unit on seems to be the
only way to overcome this.
Thanks for any suggestions

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Just got the Durabrand CG5660-M freeview box, and everything works fine
except that when you put it in standby mode overnight, it won't come
out of standby. You can pull out the power supply and reconnect, but
then it loses all its settings. Leaving the unit on seems to be the
only way to overcome this.
Thanks for any suggestions


Why would you want to put in into standby? Digiboxes use a negligible amount
of power either way.
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wrote:
Just got the Durabrand CG5660-M freeview box, and everything works fine
except that when you put it in standby mode overnight, it won't come
out of standby. You can pull out the power supply and reconnect, but
then it loses all its settings. Leaving the unit on seems to be the
only way to overcome this.
Thanks for any suggestions

take it back

"Dom Robinson" wrote in message
...
In article .com,
says...
Just got the Durabrand CG5660-M freeview box, and everything works fine
except that when you put it in standby mode overnight, it won't come
out of standby. You can pull out the power supply and reconnect, but
then it loses all its settings. Leaving the unit on seems to be the
only way to overcome this.
Thanks for any suggestions


Why would you want to put in into standby? Digiboxes use a negligible
amount
of power either way.

Better to use less power than more of course. It's a good to idea to switch
things off at the mains overnight. A digibox usually shouldn't lose settings
from complete loss of power, unless it was a REALLY badly thought-out cheap
piece of mess. Sounds like a hardware problem, unless it's just standard on
that model.

David R wrote:
"Dom Robinson" wrote in message
...
In article .com,
says...
Just got the Durabrand CG5660-M freeview box, and everything works
fine except that when you put it in standby mode overnight, it
won't come out of standby. You can pull out the power supply and
reconnect, but then it loses all its settings. Leaving the unit on
seems to be the only way to overcome this.
Thanks for any suggestions


Why would you want to put in into standby? Digiboxes use a negligible
amount
of power either way.

Better to use less power than more of course. It's a good to idea to
switch things off at the mains overnight.

Really? Why?

I know people of my parents generation unplug everything when they go to bed
at night (which drives me mad!) but I thought that harped back to the days
when mains supplies were less reliable and safe than they are now.

Plus the fact that many AV devices update themselves at night anyway.

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Just got the Durabrand CG5660-M freeview box, and everything works fine
except that when you put it in standby mode overnight, it won't come
out of standby. You can pull out the power supply and reconnect, but
then it loses all its settings. Leaving the unit on seems to be the
only way to overcome this.
Thanks for any suggestions

Unplugging the aerial might cause it to use less power?
I don't think they use much 'juice' anyway, mine says it is less than
10 watts, so it would take 100 hours, (4 days) to use a kW which costs
about 12p? (probably £12 now with all the price rises!!)
So...putting it on standby probably saves you less than 1p a night :O)
mind you in 10 years time you will have saved the price of the box
(perhaps).


But if you take into account the drain on the remotes batteries in sending
the signals
to turn it on and off............

"Bazzer Smith" wrote in message
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But if you take into account the drain on the remotes batteries in sending
the signals
to turn it on and off............

And of course the calorific cost of powering your finger. . .

Bill

"Bazzer Smith" wrote

I don't think they use much 'juice' anyway, mine says it is less than
10 watts, so it would take 100 hours, (4 days) to use a kW which costs
about 12p? (probably £12 now with all the price rises!!)
So...putting it on standby probably saves you less than 1p a night :O)
mind you in 10 years time you will have saved the price of the box
(perhaps).


I read an interesting piece in the Yorkshire Post recently, concerning the
demonstrations at Ferrybridge power station. Apparently the combined output
of Drax, Ferrybridge and the rest of the Yorkshire power stations is just
sufficient to feed all the electronic devices left in standby overnight.

That's a lot of carbon emissions.

hth

Gripper

Thanks, everybody. Yes it's a cheap piece of crap, but it does
everything well apart from the standby thing, which hopefully they will
sort out in the next upgrade.

Gripper wrote:
I read an interesting piece in the Yorkshire Post recently,
concerning the demonstrations at Ferrybridge power station.
Apparently the combined output of Drax, Ferrybridge and the rest of
the Yorkshire power stations is just sufficient to feed all the
electronic devices left in standby overnight.
That's a lot of carbon emissions.

Sounds like typical lazy journalism to me. The following analysis took me
less than a minute to research:

Drax annual CO2 emissions (2005): 20.8 Million Tonnes

Annual CO2 emissions due to standby power, according to the Energy Saving
Trust: 3.1 Million Tonnes.

It follows that Drax *alone* could supply our *total* standby requirements
(not just "overnight") nearly 7 times over.

Standby power *is* an issue, but talking crap about it doesn't help anyone.