Comments on: PS3's standby and off modes, (virtually) separated at birth

As useful as information found on the Internet can be, it can also be frustratingly myopic, resulting in moments when you have to take matters into your own hands.

[osullytony]

so you spent loads of money buying a power usage monitor and just to prove it only costs $5 a year to keep your ps3 on standby ok or you could have just said i pay the electric bill and then theres no worries.

[zclayton2]

Its not just here, its all through the site. *** is your new owner thinking? Oh, that's right, they're broadcast media so they don't know any better. I don't buy this stuff based on slimey web ads or TV when my kids are watching. Sell me something that interests me, like a game for a PS3 blog, or software/hardware for for one of your other tech articles.

[kelo360]

Great article. I have to ask another question. Does the PS3 give off more HEAT in standby mode? I only ask because my PS3 is in a wood cabinet that really traps in the heat when its turned on. Will it give off super amounts of heat in standby mode? Just another reason to turn it off completely if you're not playing every day.

[chickeee]

1.5 Watts == is not much heat at all

[kb8622]

wow that's nothing, and here in Ontario Canada the cost of KwH is 5.2 Cents so thats less then 75 Cents a year, so there no way ill turn it off at the back, unless of corse there's a thunder storm then ill unplug it just in case my surge protector fails

[fedtho]

Thanks for adressing the issue... although the *real* question has been formulated in a comment (sorry to its author for forgetting his name):

switching off a big CRT TV set rather than leaving it on standby 24/7 was a no-brainer; switching off our computerized devices that draw significant power just to BOOT is a new issue, makes things much less obvious.
I'm still kind of amazed the article focuses so much on "Do I have to switch off my PS3?"; maybe some will argue with that, but the implicit conclusion is, in my eyes: "I proved scientifically it doesn't save a significant amount of energy to turn off my PS3 when I'm not using it - so, everybody go ahead, leave all your electronics on all the time!"
And I certainly have my doubts about the PS3's carbon footprint applying to any electronic device.
This calls for more testing - and suggests a nice idea: the information on wether a given device is worth switching off to save energy (and not just MONEY) should definitely be available to the customer!

Still, great article, as it gets us all to debate - and I'm certainly no stranger to the laziness factor ;-)

[icecold638]

Does leaving it on standby mode damage it in the long run in any way?