To standby or not to standby?

Im one of those guys that never cuts his pc off, i mean in the year and a half ive owned it, its been runnin 99% of that time.

I see all the goobs on Ign sayin their PS2 has been on standby since launch and other crap that i dont know if i believe, so im gonna ask you guys how you do it.

My situation is i will prob play 1-2 hours a night on a week night, prob skipping a night every now and then, and the weekends will vary, sometimes heavy use, and sometimes not much, depending if im home.

Would i be better off just cuttin it on when i want to play rather than leaving it in standby, or just leave it in standby.

my main thing with standby is, i dont see why it would be bad since it basically shuts down.

thaks for any input, i trust this board alot more on a serious subject like this over the post whores at other boards.

stand by all the way!

I think ive only turned my ps2 off at the back once since i had it (christmas 2000) and that was by accident.

I dont know why but ive never bothered turning it off even when i move my ps2 to a new tv.

I even leave my games in it when I do this.  i wonder if that is bad?

Bah...... Who cares

it says leaving games in it is fine, dunno about unplugging it while its in standby

I only turn off my PS2 completely when I\'m about to unplug it before moving it to another TV.  It is on Standby probably about 99.9% of the time.

STBY!!!

I\'ve had mine since launch and always leave it in STBY and usually there\'s a disc in in too. Mine is Horizontal (flat).

It\'s the same as your tv being off. In order for remote controls to work (tv, cd, vcr, etc.) the device needs a stby voltage present at the infa-red receiver and maybe a few other places, so basically any piece of electronics that you can turn on with a remote are constantly in STBY mode, just like the PS2.

Those other devices being in STBY don\'t raise any concerns, and neither should leaving your PS2 in STBY:)

No standby for me..

I leave mine on standby all the time but id never leave a disk in there because ive hered bad things happen when you turn it back on with a disk in there , anyway i keep my games and system in perfect condition so my games are put away the second i have finished playing

i leave mine on standby all the time, only turn it of when i am not in for more than a day, but when i do turn it off, i take out the game, ive heard sometimes when it powers up , the lens goes too high and scratches the disc.

Standby.....too lazy to be arsed finding the back switch, and lazier still to undo the plug.

Sorry to ask but, what in the hell advantages does it have if u leave the ps2 on standby?:surprised

I belive the DVD settings are saved if you keep it in standby...or does it go to your memory card........can anyone elighten me?



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on mine, the dvd setting and everything are on the memory card, its about a 2mb file

Originally posted by mjps21983
Sorry to ask but, what in the hell advantages does it have if u leave the ps2 on standby?:surprised

Not having to reach around the system to the switch on the back is always an upside.

Originally posted by ElwayLite
on mine, the dvd setting and everything are on the memory card, its about a 2mb file

That is what I thought


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Originally posted by M4

Not having to reach around the system to the switch on the back is always an upside.

that, and its more ear adn turn on the switch, i have always like stanby better on any electronics over turning it on and off... my sony dvd player sits on standby too, and i use the rmote to turn it on and off