iPhone;237747 Wrote: 
> Now for my question to everybody that is turning off their SBs at night
> to save Mother Earth: What is your TV set to?
> 1 instant on (meaning its in full standby)
> 2 full off (the remote will not turn the TV on you have to push the
> button)
> 3 Or Mother Earth mode (unplugged until you need to watch it)
> 
> I bet most are answer number one. I don't think we need to worry about
> fully unplugging our SBs until there are more of them then DVD players
> and TVs (hey I can dream can't I).

And I'd guess that most people who will turn off their SB at the wall
socket will be doing the same with their TV, as I do. (Indeed, I even
unplug the TV, for safety reasons.) I do leave my PVR and VCR on
standby, as otherwise they wouldn't do their job! My PC monitor is left
connected to mains because otherwise it loses its settings and they're a
real bugger to restore.

I work at a physics research lab, which at full tilt probably uses a
significant percentage of the local power station's output; but we
still have stickers reminding people to turn off lights when they
leave. Just because device X is left on and consumes one or more orders
of magnitude more than device Y, doesn't mean that it's OK to leave
device Y on when it needn't be. It may be just a drop in the ocean, but
it's still a drop, and all those drops do add up.

To get back on course: When I turn on my SB, sometimes it connects by
itself, sometimes I have to take it through the connection by hand
(fortunately, never to the extent of having to re-enter the network
key).  I have the SB set to show the clock when powered-off (red button
on remote); but if I shut down the wireless router first, the SB's
screen will go blank. I rarely use SqueezeNetwork, so the SB is usually
looking for SS.

-- Brian


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