Thought I would weigh in with an update. My "box" lighted up not once but twice early this morning. Fortunately, since my initial post, I bought a 2nd remote control, which has the buttons that light up, which I keep by the bed, so I could "turn it off" easily. But my ISP had a scheduled outtage earlier last night - when they came back online, that might have caused it to turn on. But then this happened again about 30 minutes or so later. All previous posts notwithstanding, I still think it's mighty odd (what is the convenience afforded by this feature?) that the SB needs to be the ONE electrical device with an on/off switch (on the remote) that can "turn itself on" completely against the wishes of the user. For comparison, I keep my PC in hibernate mode, which seems equivalent to the "off" mode of the SB. Yet my PC doesn't "react" if the cable signal stops and starts, ditto the AC power. Other devices that have a "standby" or "hibernate" mode don't come out of those modes against the explicit wishes of the owner (or someone who acts as the owner, for you sticklers out there thinking about remote, unauthorized access such as by a hacker). Why can't the "standby" mode of the SB possess this same degree of integrity?
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