To be clear - they meant the power button on the remote/front panel, and NOT disrupting the AC power from the outlet (ie. don't unplug it, don't turn off a power strip, etc.).
Not sure what receiver my buddy has but I found his HD receiver to be incredibly slow. I thought something was wrong with his remote but he said no its just like that.
Have the newer HD receivers fixed this?
Ok, I will save $40 with that over what I have now with Dish through another company. How can I get:Well I have the promo price right now of about 54 dollars a month for six months. Two DVR's, Three TV's, Two of them being HD. Dont have the bill in front of me, but I think when the promo is over it will be in the 80 dollar range.
As far as preimums HBO/Starz for three months, cinemax for 1 cent for the year.
You can change the pip without using the swap. You press the browse button (and it does not matter if pip window is open or not), change the browse to the channel you want, then press the pip button. TV2 is changed.
I checked mine with the Kill-a-watt and standby uses one watt less than the ON mode.When you turn the receivers off they aren't being completely powered down, kindof put into a standby mode where they consume less power. Not quite sure how much but I'm sure somebody has a Kill-a-watt (really should get one myself) and can tell you the load differences. But yes its a good idea to turn them off when you aren't watching them and the timers will fire even when the unit is "off".
How many watts does it use when it is on?I checked mine with the Kill-a-watt and standby uses one watt less than the ON mode.
Something I am not used to, the Tech mentioned to turn the recivevers off when you are not watching TV. Mentioned that helps the life span of the recievers. I asked if the DVR would still work if I had some shows to record. He said they would. Is turning them off, kind of like a sleep mode?
Mine was reading 52 on and 50 in standbyHow many watts does it use when it is on?
My ViP722 is running at 53-54 watts 'on' and runs 51-52 watts 'standby'. Basically the exact same as your results.Mine was reading 52 on and 50 in standby
Dan
I don't know. But if you read my post again, you can see that I didn't mention that. My household probably uses less than what I posted there: <8 hours/day of usage (on time) and >16 hours/day standby. Since there is not much difference from 'on' to 'standby', 8 hours/day is a good estimate.Who only plugs in their DVR 8 hours a day?
No need to turn it off. It stays on while in standby. I remember someone saying power consumption hardly changed when off. The only thing I can see that it would not do while in standby is buffer the current channel.
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