My Sky box goes into standby at random?

I have found the answer. Sky have introduced Auto Standby on all their Satellite boxes without telling their customers. They have added an additional service on their on screen menu of "auto standby" which can be disabled. The handbook of course did not show this feature in their illustration of services page which was misleading/confusing. So al users need to access their services menu on all sky receivers and disable as required

eric heavisides
January 2009