auto dvr使用教程_电缆盒和DVR真的使用那么多功率吗？

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You turn lights off when you leave the room, you turn off your computer when you’re not using it, but your power bill still looks like you leave the proverbial lights on all day and night. The culprit is likely sitting silently under your shiny HDTV set.

离开房间时，请关闭灯，不使用计算机时，请关闭计算机，但电费账单仍然看起来像您整天都在闲逛。 罪魁祸首很可能是静静地坐在您闪亮的高清电视下面。

Dear HTG,

尊敬的HTG，

Lately I’ve been paying more attention to my power bill in an attempt to be a bit more ecologically minded (and save some money too). Although I’ve done various things like switch out my high use light fixtures to LED bulbs and been more conscious in general of how I’m using electricity, my bill hasn’t dropped quite as much as I’d expect.

最近，我一直在更加关注我的电费账单，以期变得更加环保(并节省一些钱)。 尽管我已经做了很多事情，例如将高使用的照明设备切换为LED灯泡，并且对我的用电情况更加了解，但是我的账单却没有像我预期的那样下降。

I mentioned this to a neighbor in passing the other day, and he said it’s probably my cable boxes as he’d heard they were huge power sinks. This seems a bit strange to me as they just don’t look like a piece of equipment that would consume a lot of power… but what do I know? Is he right? If he is, why do cable boxes consume so much power?

前几天我在邻居面前提到了这个，他说这可能是我的电缆盒，因为他听说它们是巨大的散热器。 对我来说，这有点奇怪，因为它们看起来不像是会消耗大量电能的设备……但是我知道什么？ 是吗如果是的话，为什么电缆箱会消耗这么多功率？

I have four cable boxes in my house plus a DVR supplied by my cable company in the living room.  How much power are they consuming? Is there anyway to get definitive answer?

我家里有四个电缆盒，在客厅里还有我的电缆公司提供的DVR。 他们消耗多少电量？ 反正有明确的答案吗？

Sincerely,

真诚的

Cable Curious

好奇的电缆

You have several great questions in your email. Let’s start with the easiest to answer and move to the hardest. Along the way we’ll provide some tips to help you get to the bottom of your problem with the definitiveness you’re after.

您的电子邮件中有几个很好的问题。 让我们从最简单的答案开始，然后移到最困难的地方。 在此过程中，我们将提供一些技巧，以帮助您深入了解问题的确定性。

电缆盒是饥饿的吸血鬼 (Cable Boxes Are Hungry Energy Vampires)

First, your neighbor is right. Cable boxes and DVRs are shamefully power inefficient. A 2011 study by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found that cable boxes and DVRs were so staggeringly power hungry that, based on the estimate number of these units in the United States the net power bill for all the cable boxes and DVRs across the country was roughly 3 billion dollars (2 billion of which was wasted on the approximately 16 hours a day the devices sat idle).

首先，你的邻居是对的。 电缆盒和DVR的电源效率很低。 国家资源保护委员会(NRDC)在2011年进行的一项研究发现，电缆盒和DVR如此耗电，以至于根据美国这些设备的估计数量，整个美国的所有电缆盒和DVR的净电费都在美国大约需要花费30亿美元(其中20亿美元的设备每天闲置约16小时被浪费掉)。

Their findings indicated that power consumption of  the average cable box/DVR combo (~446 kWh/year) was higher the average refrigerator (~415 kWh/year) and was second only to air conditioning units (1500+ kWh/year) in terms of highest power use in the typical household.

他们的研究结果表明，平均电缆盒/ DVR组合的功耗(〜446 kWh /年)高于平均冰箱(〜415 kWh /年)，仅次于空调装置(1500+ kWh /年)在典型家庭中使用最高功率。

Despite the fact that this information was widely published around the time of the study and other studies (and consumer experimentation at home) proved that the cable and DVR boxes were very power hungry, little has changed in the intervening years. While cable companies and the electronics firms that supply them with hardware could work toward Energy Star certification and lower power use most of them have no interest in doing this. This leads us to your second question focused on why cable boxes consume so much power.

尽管该信息在研究期间已被广泛发布，但其他研究(以及在家中进行的消费者实验)证明电缆和DVR盒非常耗电，在随后的几年中几乎没有什么变化。 虽然电缆公司和为其提供硬件的电子公司可以争取获得能源之星认证，并且降低了能耗，但大多数人对此并不感兴趣。 这将我们引到您的第二个问题，该问题集中在为什么电缆箱会消耗这么多的功率。

即时使用意味着始终在线 (Instant Use Means Always On)

Televisions have always been, save for the earliest tube televisions that actually needed to warm up for a moment, an always on instant-gratification device. Use any television from the last 30 years and you’ll get the same experience: press the power button on the remote and the TV flicks immediately to life.

一直以来，电视一直是实际需要进行预热的最早的管状电视，它始终是即时满足的设备。 使用过去30年中的任何电视，您将获得相同的体验：按下遥控器上的电源按钮，电视立即闪烁。

Consumers expect this and cable boxes are designed to provide this. Unlike computers, where the consumer has some expectation that they will have to wait for a small window of time after the device is turned on, televisions are expected to turn on immediately. As such, companies designed cable boxes to be always on and to be ready to respond to user commands with zero delay. The majority of cable boxes on the market never idle, never hibernate, and never go into any sort of power saving state. It’s essentially the equivalent of running a computer 24/7 so that someone can sit down at any moment, turn the monitor on, and start surfing the web.

消费者期望这样做，而电缆箱则旨在提供这种功能。 与计算机不同，在消费者希望设备打开后必须等待一小段时间后，计算机才可以期望电视立即打开。 因此，公司将电缆箱设计为始终打开并准备以零延迟响应用户命令。 市场上的大多数电缆盒永远不会闲置，永远不会Hibernate，也永远不会进入任何节电状态。 从本质上讲，这等效于24/7全天候运行计算机，以便有人可以随时坐下，打开显示器并开始上网。

DVRs are even bigger culprits when it comes to energy consumption because not only do they have all the overhead trappings of the cable box but they also include one or more hard drives to store the recorded media. It’s a rare DVR unit that has any sort of power saving feature or even spins the hard drives down when not in use. So now in addition to the power consumption of the cable box you also have what amounts to a miniature Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit running 24/7 under your television.

在能耗方面，DVR甚至是更大的罪魁祸首，因为DVR不仅具有电缆盒的所有开销陷阱，而且还包括一个或多个硬盘驱动器来存储记录的媒体。 这是一种罕见的DVR装置，具有任何省电功能，甚至在不使用时也会降低硬盘驱动器的速度。 因此，现在，除了电缆盒的功耗外，您还可以算得上是一个微型电视，其以24/7的频率运行在NAS上。

如何测量盒子的能源消耗 (How to Measure Your Boxes Energy Use)

Your third question focuses on how much energy your boxes are using. Without actually measuring your boxes there’s no way to give you a perfectly definitive answer but we can move from a general estimate to a more precise answer.

您的第三个问题集中在您的盒子正在使用多少能量上。 如果没有实际衡量您的货箱，就无法给您一个完美的最终答案，但是我们可以从一般估计过渡到更精确的答案。

You indicated that you have four cable boxes and one DVR. The previously cited study found that HD cable boxes averaged 171 kWh/year and HD DVRs averaged 275 kWh/year. Assuming you have units that perform around the same as the average of the units tested in their study that means your annual household energy consumption for your media devices is approximately 959 kWh/year. Or, to put that in perspective, a value equivalent to putting two full size beer fridges in your garage (and then leaving the garage lights on 24/7 just in case you need to get a beer at 3AM).

您表示有四个电缆盒和一个DVR。 先前引用的研究发现，高清电缆盒平均每年171 kWh，高清硬盘录像机平均每年275 kWh。 假设您的设备的性能与研究中测试的设备的平均值大致相同，这意味着媒体设备的家庭年能源消耗约为959 kWh /年。 或者，从一个角度来看，该值等于在车库中放置两个全尺寸啤酒冰箱(然后将车库灯保持24/7开启，以防万一您需要在凌晨3点喝啤酒)。

You can further refine this estimate by searching for your specific cable box and DVR model numbers to see if there are any formally or informally published energy use results. While this will be more accurate than guesstimating based off the averages found in the NRDC study there’s another kink in our power estimation plans. Different boxes deployed by different cable companies can have significantly different power usage patterns. Some cable boxes don’t even have standby modes or any sort of power efficiencies built in. Some cable boxes do, but the providers program them to ignore standby modes because they don’t want consumers complaining about waiting 10 seconds for the cable to come on. Other cable companies have their programming guides set up to update frequently and prefer the box to stay on for ease of updating and such.Ultimately the majority of companies have favored passing the expense of the box completely along to you and have opted to keep them up and running 24/7 to provide a snappy user experience, updated guides, and to minimize user complaints.

您可以通过搜索特定的电缆盒和DVR型号来进一步完善此估算，以查看是否有正式或非正式发布的能源使用结果。 尽管这比根据NRDC研究中发现的平均值进行猜测更为准确，但我们的功率估算计划还有另一个问题。 不同电缆公司部署的不同机柜可能具有截然不同的电源使用模式。 有些电缆盒甚至没有待机模式或内置任何电源效率。有些电缆盒有，但是提供商将它们编程为忽略待机模式，因为他们不希望消费者抱怨等待电缆等待10秒钟上。 其他电缆公司的节目指南也经常更新，因此希望盒装可以方便地进行更新等。最终，大多数公司都倾向于将盒装的费用完全转嫁给您，并选择继续使用并运行24/7以提供快速的用户体验，更新的指南，并最大程度地减少用户的抱怨。

In light of all that, the only real way to get a definitive answer on your power use is to measure the actual devices in your home. Fortunately doing so is really simple (provided you don’t mind spending around $20 on a very handy energy measuring tool). We’ve written an easy to follow guide to measuring your home energy use; the guide works whether you’re trying to figure out the power use on your computer, fridge, or cable box.

综上所述，要获得确切的用电答案，唯一真正的方法就是测量家里的实际设备。 幸运的是，这样做确实非常简单(只要您不介意在非常方便的能源测量工具上花费20美元左右)。 我们已经编写了一个易于遵循的指南，以衡量您的家庭能源使用; 无论您要弄清计算机，冰箱或电缆盒的电源使用情况，该指南均适用。

Follow the guide, use the handy Kill-a-Watt meter , and you’ll have a very precise answer after leaving the device to measure power use for a day or two.

按照指南进行操作，使用方便的Kill-a-Watt电表，将设备放在一两天的时间内测量电量后，您将获得非常准确的答案。

你能做什么？ (What Can You Do?)

One question you didn’t ask, but that we’re going to add to the list, is “What can I do about it?”

您没有问过一个问题，但是我们要添加到列表中的一个问题是：“我能做些什么？”

If you had your cable set up in the last year (or received new cable boxes) there isn’t, unfortunately, a whole lot you can do if you find that your cable boxes and DVR are insanely power hungry. Generally speaking cable boxes come in one or two models per company and you get what you get. That said, we would encourage you to contact your cable company and make it known that you want an energy efficient box. Whether or not they’ll have one (or settings to adjust on the one you have now) is unlikely but at least there will be noise on the line indicating people want them.

不幸的是，如果您在去年安装了电缆(或收到了新的电缆盒)，那么如果发现电缆盒和DVR异常耗电，您将无法做很多事情。 一般来说，每个公司的电缆箱有一种或两种型号，您将得到所得到的。 话虽如此，我们鼓励您与您的电缆公司联系，并告知您需要节能盒。 他们是否将拥有一个(或根据您现在拥有的设置进行调整)的可能性不大，但至少在生产线上会出现噪音，表明人们想要它们。

Barring getting a more efficient box, which is unfortunately unlikely, you can experiment with managing your power use. The savings here are highly variable and you (and everyone reading this Ask HTG article) will need to test their own system to see what works best. Here are a couple potential ideas to get you started in experimenting with your cable boxes.

除非有一个效率更高的盒子(不幸的是不太可能)，否则您可以尝试管理用电情况。 这里的节省是高度可变的，您(以及阅读此Ask HTG文章的每个人)都需要测试他们自己的系统，以查看哪种系统最有效。 这里有一些潜在的想法，可以帮助您开始尝试电缆盒。

In multi-box households, especially those households that have newer cable box/DVR setups where the main box/DVR acts as a central client and the other boxes in the house act like thin clients, will likely benefit from putting the lesser used boxes on either timers or switches. The primary box, especially if you have a DVR, will need to stay on to communicate with the cable company and pass shows along to the DVR but the secondary boxes will likely communicate with the main box and thus not take as long to boot up when you do use them.

在多盒式家庭中，尤其是那些具有较新电缆盒/ DVR设置的家庭，其中主盒/ DVR充当中央客户端，而房屋中的其他盒则充当瘦客户端，这可能会受益于将较少使用的盒放在计时器或开关。 主机箱(特别是如果您有DVR的情况下)将需要继续与电缆公司通信并将节目传递到DVR，但次级箱机可能与主机箱通信，因此启动时不需要花费很长时间你确实使用它们。

If you don’t watch television late at night or at all during the day while you’re at work, you could also set up an appliance timer to turn the box on a half hour or so before you get home from work and a half hour or so after you typically go to bed. This will give the box plenty of time to update the programming guide and finish warming up.

如果您在工作之夜或深夜不看电视，则还可以设置一个设备计时器，将盒子打开半小时左右，然后再下班回家通常在您睡觉后一个小时左右。 这将使盒子有足够的时间更新编程指南并完成预热。

In regard to DVRs, we’d recommend not putting them on any sort of timer device. We have no way of knowing how the device is programming, what kind of disks are inside, and what kind of spin-down protocols and what not the manufacturer has set up. They designed the device to run 24/7 and cutting the power on what amounts to a simple computer with a mechanical hard drive is a great way to shorten the life of the device and prematurely do in the HDD (taking all your recorded content with it).

关于DVR，我们建议不要将其放在任何类型的计时器设备上。 我们无法知道设备的编程方式，内部装有什么样的磁盘，何种类型的降速协议以及制造商尚未设置的内容。 他们将设备设计为24/7全天候运行，并在具有机械硬盘驱动器的简单计算机上切断电源，这是缩短设备寿命并过早在HDD中进行操作的好方法(将所有记录的内容与设备一起使用) )。

So in summary: experiment with putting your boxes on switches and/or timers (either you’ll have a box and cable company where this works or you’ll have a box/company combo where such an arrangement leads to agonizingly long boot/update times) and, high power consumption or not, leave your DVR alone to keep the drives happily humming along.

因此，总而言之：尝试将盒子放在开关和/或计时器上(要么您可以在其中使用盒子和电缆公司，要么在盒子/公司组合中使用这种方法，导致启动/更新时间很长)次数)，以及是否有高功耗，请不要将DVR放在一边，以使驱动器愉快地嗡嗡作响。

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