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If equipment would enter active state instead of standby state when power is applied, all devices left in standby mode in the house would be turned on after a p
by SNvD7vEJ 11y ago
If equipment would enter active state instead of standby state when power is applied, all devices left in standby mode in the house would be turned on after a power glitch, wouldn't it?
So, you might wake up in the middle of the night with all your devices blaring, or coming home from a trip finding the neighbors mad about you having your sound systems turned on 24/7.
This might be one reason that standby is the initial state of devices.
- FreeFull 11y agoI think the argument is more that devices shouldn't have a standby state in the first place.
- nine_k 11y agoThey can't be remotely activated of they don't. You just can make the standby state more efficient: a phone on standby consumes much less than a TV.
- devit 11y agoThe correct design is to return to the state they were in before they lost power, like most desktop/server systems can be configured to do.