My cable box uses 19watts when its off!

[meangreen]

I bought a 'kill a watt' meter a while back and today i was checking the powerstrip that my 42"lcd tv, a dvd player and my cable box are plugged into, and discovered that my cable box uses about 20w when off, my TV about 1w, and my dvd player doesnt register any wattage. Im not sure how accurate a kilawatts meter is.

Is there an aftermarket cable box that would allow me less energy usage?
(i will be switching off my powerstrip as much as possible now)


And for anyone who might be interested I measured the Wattage of my Westinghouse 42" lcd tv uses while fired up. this using the dvd player and with the cablebox unplugged from the power strip. I measured it while playing a beach scene (brighter sun light footage) from the movie, INITIAL D.

I had read somewhere that turning the backlight down on lcd tv's you would cut your energy consumption, i starting turning mine down several weeks ago but only today measured the differences.

(according to the kilawatts)

with the backlight at 100% it uses 244w
with the backlight at 50% it uses 159w
with the backlight at 10% it uses 97w.
with the backlight at 0% 87w.

im not sure how much a ctr tv uses atm. ive got one but its not in use.