kawo:

I have to say that I am a little bit confused by some opinions here. Saving energy is a "must", even when it starts with tiny little things like a power off button. Just think off the number off TV's in world if you would switch the off if unused....

I travel a lot and I am on the road most days of the week. Why should my hole entertainment system be on standby? With all the gear it is not just one TV any more, all my B&O gear with a power socket sum up to 18 devices on stand by all the time!

I agree here. Many of the older B&O devices use way too much power on standby. No wonder though as they were designed a long time before energy awareness, most linkable receivers for example would probably be very different if designed now. But there are many utterly stupid other devices nowadays. Like STBs that can be switched to "standby", and most it really does is blank the video output and turn a LED from green to red! The processor runs just as usual...

Most equipment like this has already been mandated by EU regulations to have <1W power consuption on standby, starting this year I think? That's a bit more sensible, but now that I think about it, may be just the reason why these stupid on/off switches will be there...

All in favour of saving energy but the addition of a  switch on the power cord is not what I would expect! I would suggest that some form of battery back up allied to a motion sensor would have been the high tech solution, allowing the system to be switched back on to mains power remotely and also not disrupting the PIN system. I believe global warming is an entity and switching TVs off from standby could well be a useful saving. I am afraid convenience over rides my conscience though. 

Peter :

I would suggest that some form of battery back up allied to a motion sensor would have been the high tech solution, allowing the system to be switched back on to mains power remotely and also not disrupting the PIN system.

Remarkably, I just read (somewhere) about a TV that does something similar... If it does not sense motion in x minutes... it shuts off!

Let me search around... I'll repost if I can find it!

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Apparently not new, articles go back to May, 2009...

SONY

Peter :

All in favour of saving energy but the addition of a  switch on the power cord is not what I would expect! I would suggest that some form of battery back up allied to a motion sensor would have been the high tech solution, allowing the system to be switched back on to mains power remotely and also not disrupting the PIN system. I believe global warming is an entity and switching TVs off from standby could well be a useful saving. I am afraid convenience over rides my conscience though. 

A motion detector (and associated hard- and software) would use power when listening and thus wouldn't exactly mean that the power was cut. 

The motion detector (and the associated thingies) is merely moving the "standby" from the apparatus one step closer to the power grid.

burantek:

Remarkably, I just read (somewhere) about a TV that does something similar... If it does not sense motion in x minutes... it shuts off!

Remember to move around every X minutes and within the appropriate distance from the telly at all times.

tournedos:

kawo:

Most equipment like this has already been mandated by EU regulations to have <1W power consuption on standby, starting this year I think? That's a bit more sensible, but now that I think about it, may be just the reason why these stupid on/off switches will be there...

Especially with devices like Apple TV's I think the new regulation makes a lot of sense. The major complaint of nearly every owner of the Apple TV was the power consumption/heat generation of the unit when not in use. It is quite remarkeble that even after the unit started shipping in March 2007 no improvement on power consumption has been made....