[rogerhb]

TV standby buttons will be outlawed

I find this incredible!

Also how about banning remote controls and save on battery production and disposal.

And how about banning advertising on TV, stop wasting our time telling us about shit we don't need.

[Doly]

And why not banning TV altogether? It's not like it's providing an essential service, is it?

[rogerhb]

Could bring back the old ARP wardens to look through peoples windows to see if the tell-tale LED is still on.

Put that light out!

[garyp]

Mandating that standby functions have to be implemented efficiently is one thing. I quite believe its possible to implement standby functions on a few 10s of milliwatts if the desire is there.

However I get the feeling this idea is to draw attention away from the failure to mandate better standards on business and commercial users. The drawdown from this segment is massive, and when you think of all those open plan offices built so as to require artificial illumination all day and all night - I can't help but think one of the best targets is there - not a standby button.

[paoniapbud]

Poor Brits. Too bad you can't keep wasting energy like us Yanks! At least we're doing our part to hasten THE END!

[Grifter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('garyp', 'I') get the feeling this idea is to draw attention away from the failure to mandate better standards on business and commercial users.

[SoothSayer]

Microsoft are SO stuffed!

[TommyJefferson]

If enough people desire TV's that don't waste expensive electricity, manufacturers will provide them.

That's the beauty of the free market. No gun-backed coersion via nanny-state legislation needed.

[aflurry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', 'I')f enough people desire TV's that don't waste expensive electricity, manufacturers will provide them.

That's the beauty of the free market. No gun-backed coersion via nanny-state legislation needed.

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('aflurry', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', 'I')f enough people desire TV's that don't waste expensive electricity, manufacturers will provide them.

That's the beauty of the free market. No gun-backed coersion via nanny-state legislation needed.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SoothSayer', '[')b]Microsoft are SO stuffed!

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', 'I')f enough people desire TV's that don't waste expensive electricity, manufacturers will provide them.

That's the beauty of the free market. No gun-backed coersion via nanny-state legislation needed.

[dbuckley]

Some TVs have a standby function so that one you bring the telly back to life the picture is present almost immediately. These telly's on standby consume a significant fraction of the running power.

Other tellys (like my ancient Sony) take nearly 20 seconds to come to life. But then again, my telly uses only a few watts on standby, and manufacturers could make them use far less than that.

[SoothSayer]

I wonder what people will think in say 40 years time when they read that we burned electricity to do ... precisely NOTHING.

"Back in the year 2000 they even had gadgets to burn electricity just to get ready to burn MORE electricity!"

[TommyJefferson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Concerned', 'I') think there is far more energy to be saved with insulation, full or partial solar heating of water and smaller houses than the dreaded standby button.

[gg3]

Bingo! Soothsayer is right on target: "...we burned electricity to do precisely NOTHING."

All for the sake of not having to wait twenty seconds whilst the telly warms up. Twenty seconds!

Anyone who's got such a bad case of ADHD that they can't wait twenty seconds for something, needs to learn to meditate, or needs to be on meds.

(I'm highly intrigued by the finding from the recent research study, that psilocybin appears to increase individuals' sense of *patience*. That could turn out to be enormously valuable, potential cure for road rage and intermittent explosive disorder generally. I'm willing to bet that this result can be produced with daily doses that are about 1/30th to 1/50th of the dose that produces a mystical experience, i.e. doses that are safe to take every day with no psychedelic effects. Someone needs to look into this....)

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gg3', 'I')'m highly intrigued by the finding from the recent research study, that psilocybin appears to increase individuals' sense of *patience*.

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gg3', 'B')ingo! Soothsayer is right on target: "...we burned electricity to do precisely NOTHING."

All for the sake of not having to wait twenty seconds whilst the telly warms up. Twenty seconds!

[rogerhb]

Apparently you are not allowed to use TV frame code chips that detect the content-type of a TV image to stop a video from recording adverts....

All TV frames are broadcast with a few bits that say whether it's new, entertainment, adverts etc.....

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', 'A')pparently you are not allowed to use TV frame code chips that detect the content-type of a TV image to stop a video from recording adverts....

All TV frames are broadcast with a few bits that say whether it's new, entertainment, adverts etc.....