Well that's Comcastic! More reasons to break-up the telco companies... My circa 2000 RCA TV actually gobbles 20 watts while turned off & 80 watts while turn on. There are all sorts of things plugged in around the house that sap tiny amounts of power, constantly. It would be nice if we had energy meters built in to each plug-in & a centralized way to monitor what's using what. Break it down into costs, maybe even have a switch on the outlet so it's easy to power off everything attached to it.
Yeah I noticed that these things don't turn off a while ago because they continue to record scheduled programs, so there is no "off-off" unless you unplug it--which nobody does because it resets your program guide.
That makes no sense until I make these assumptions. This is only for HD. The TV is fully on less than half the day, and off, or in sleep mode, more than half the day. The black box converter and the DVR have no sleep mode, so they use full electricity 24 hours a day. As the article says, manufacturers of the converter and DVR simply need to add a sleep mode.
that's weird because I went from no cable box to hd dvr a while back and didn't notice a spike in my bill.
