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Sky Fights The Power
Sky wants to do its bit for the environment this year by introducing an
automatic standby mode for all of its Sky HD boxes and, later, for its Sky+
boxes.
‘Auto-Standby’ will monitor whether or not you are using your Sky box
late at night between 11pm and 4am. If it’s not in use for two hours during
this window, the box will go into standby mode after flashing up a message on
screen. 
It will remain in standby until it is switched on again. Interestingly, the boxes will still be able to
record in standby.
The idea is to cut the amount of
power being wasted by entertainment devices that people forget to, or don’t
bother to, switch off.
According to Sky’s maths, this will slash the electricity bills of Sky
customers by around £7.6m a year, and result in enough spare juice to light all
the homes in Wolverhampton for a year or, more amusingly, all of Liverpool’s
washing machines. Wow, power savings and improved hygiene in one.
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