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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3122 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: OneClick
• Model: TVAIMP205
• Released on: 2008-04-07

Features

• 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!

Customer Reviews

OneClick TVAIMP205 8 Way Mains Adaptor with Auto Calibration Low Standby and Anti Surge
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.

great product
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!

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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