Intellipanel – TV/Audio version
Posted by Notcot on Apr 24, 2010 in Home Cinema & Video |
Product Description
Smartest Gadget of 2007? We think so, save money and help to reduce your carbon footprint too! Patented Calibration system built in, senses when you are using your TV and when you are not!
- Worlds First Intelligent Power Panel now includes IR receiver
- Say NO to Standby
- Reduce your Energy Bills
- Switch Your TV and ALL TV Accessories off with your Normal TV Remote!
Brought one of these a couple of weeks ago. I had no problems with set up . It does what it says on box, turns everything off of standby – except the always on socket( Sky+/Sky HD or whatever you want to remain on is)- when you switch the T.V. off.
Rating: 5 / 5
i’ve had no problems with this product, in fact i think it’s great. takes about 30 secs after standy for everything to turn off, which is fine. not really expensive for something that is saving money and the planet. nice one!
Rating: 5 / 5
Excellent piece of kit
Before it arrived i was wondering how it would work if you put your tv into ‘sleep’ mode … ie it turns itself off after 30, 60 90 mins etc
It has its own infa red receiver which ‘sees’ when u press the tv power button on the remote … so I was thinking it might not work if the sleep function turns off the tv
well im happy to report that it does …. it also monitors the power being drawn from the tv mains socket and when that reduces it turns everything else off too … and i have to say it works absolutely brillianty
This feature does however have a slightly unwanted side effect for Plasma TV’s
LCD TV’s should be unaffected (although I have not tested this), as the power drawn by an LCD TV is always constant. Plasma TV’s however, draw less power the darker the picture, and more power the brighter the picture.
So what happened in my case was (I own a 42″ panasonic plasma), I paused an xbox game while i made some lunch …. xbox went into screensaver mode … the picture goes dark, draws less power, and the intellipanel seemed to think i had turned the tv off …. and so turned everything else off … including my mid-game xbox … :o(
This is easy to get around though …. I have turned off screen savers on all my equipment, and havent had the problem since
This may concern people worried about ‘burn in’ and it did me too … but any images burned into my screen all seem to be temporary and go after a short time of watching a normal moving picture again …. not sure of the long term impact this will have on my tv …. but heh hoh
My theory can be proved in lots of ways … for example if you are watching sky, and turn off the sky box, the screen goes black … if you leave the tv on now blank sky signal, 30 seconds later the intellipanel will turn everything off
Amazing bit of kit … but you might want to check how much power your kit actually uses in standby, before you buy one …. as the brick itself uses 0.5 watt and my tv only uses 0.7 …. but it comes into its own when you have a ps3, xbox, 5.1 cinema, dvd, wii etc all on standby all the time
It also has an ‘always on’ mains socket for things like sky+ which need to be always on for recording etc
highly recommended
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this since I was constantly being “ticked off” for leaving everything on Standby.
It does exactly what it says on the box, and is very easy to set up.
It has an “always on” plug which I use for SKY+ (that way it can still record programmes while TV is off). Also pleasently surprised at how quickly the product recognised my SKY remote.
I was a little surprised at how big the product was… it is not very discrete!
Defintily a worth-while product.. highly recommended, just not very aesthetically pleasing!.
Rating: 4 / 5
I have had one of these in use for around 2 years now and I am very satisfied with the overall performance. My partner is on the obsessive side when it comes to having things turned off and this does make things an awful lot easier.
Set up was very straightforward and I have not had a single problem with the unit since it was first used.
The Sky box is plugged into the ‘on all the time’ socket and everything else except the TV is plugged into the other sockets, which are switched on or off a short time after the TV.
I cannot say that I have noticed a reduction in electricity usage as a result of using this but, with the exception of the Sky box, everything is switched off automatically with the TV and that feels very tidy (if nothing else) and it also satisfies my obsessive partner that nothing is left on standby unnecessarily.
Rating: 5 / 5