Do you leave your reciever on once you turn it on

[solarrdadd]

standby is the condition your receiver or other remote controled equpment goes into when you press either the power button on the remote or press the power/standby button on the device itself. it will power off down to a minimum of power usage waiting for you to press the power button on the remote or the power/standby button on the physical unit.

anything controlled by a remote that can be started up by pressing the power button on said remote goes into a standby mode so that it can respond to the commands of said remote and "wake up" or stop "standing by" and do what the remote asked it to do.

a true "turnn" off of equipment would render the remote useless because there is no power the circuit that the infra-red or bluetooth communicates so the device would never know it's being asked to do something; that's why we leave stuff in "standby"

hope that helps.