Dag 899: What level of standby do you use?

A few weeks ago I was listening to radio 4 on my way into work.
It was the Today Show and they were discussing how bad it was to keep your electrical goods (such as televisions and DVD players) on standby mode when not in use. There was an expert being interviewed who was basically saying you must always turn everything off fully and never leave them on standby because it is much better for the environment.
The presenter asked her what you should do if you have an item that loses its memory settings when it is switched right off.
The expert replied that in such cases it is ok to leave the item on standby, but make sure it is on a very very low level of standby.

I don't know about you, but none of my electrical items have levels of standby, as far as I know. Maybe they do but I just haven't found the setting switch yet. Maybe all my electrical stuff is set with its standby level to ultra high so that they actually use more electricity when they are on standby than they do when they are switched on.

My advice to you is to go round and turn down all you standby levels to the minimum possible value.