http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/ Engadget Comments for Reboot your home theater remotely with PS Audio PowerPlay http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 29th 2007 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 29th 2007 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 29th 2007 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 29th 2007 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 29th 2007 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 29th 2007 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 30th 2007 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 30th 2007 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/
You can turn on & turn off on a certain schedule.. that's how I use mine.. I don't have to hunt down for my remote when it's The Simpson time

As for disconnecting the whole power instead of just using the IR blaster to turn off, that's to save you electricity... EVERY (digital) electronic thing uses energy when it's off, be it to hold the power flip-flop circuit on, or be it to hold on the watchdog that is always looking for signals from the remote, or better yet: things that have multiple watchdogs (such as TVs that auto-on when they receive signals from the component/composite input).... Granted, it's a tiny amount of energy... but when you sum up the energy that your WHOLE gear uses when it's off, the results are noticeable]]>Dec 30th 2007 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 30th 2007 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Well, in standby with wc24 on the Wii uses 9.3W as shown here:
http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-356-4.htm
Note, that's half of the 18W for playing a game. Although that's probably a lot more power than a TV uses in standby (not entirely sure on that figure) it's still almost nothing compared to, say, a light bulb, even a fluorescent one. And you always have the option of turning wc24 off, in which case power consumption is around 1.3W. Certainly not substantial by any means.]]>Dec 30th 2007 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/
Another nice feature that should be considered is an energy consumption meter, similar to what is on the exterior of your home. Kind of like the Kill-a-watt or Seasonic but with data logging/graphing abilities.

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THANKS.

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This thing is seriously overpriced. Any number of existing power switch companies could compete quite easily for less than half of what these cost.]]>Dec 30th 2007 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 30th 2007 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/29/reboot-your-home-theater-remotely-with-ps-audio-powerplay/Dec 31st 2007 2:33AM