Makes sense for her (and potentially for the company as an immediate fix), but the environmental impact here is pretty significant too. Given this change will

Makes sense for her (and potentially for the company as an immediate fix), but the environmental impact here is pretty significant too. Given this change will now keep cable boxes on by default for all users, we're now burning 19.6kWh (their stat) per box, per year, and there are ~16 million customers (ignoring that most customers have more than one box), so they just increased wasted power by at least ~80% of that (yes, they have a power saver mode, but you have to opt-in to it, and I'll bet <5% of users do that). ... so somewhere in the neighborhood of 19.6kWh * 16 million boxes * 80% unused time per day * 95% of users who don't opt-in = 238,336,000kWh (238.3GWh)