I don't buy that the larger LCD screen TV's use more power than conventional CRT sets.
Anyone have actual experience with this. I haven't been able to afford spending $4,000 for the 60" LCD I'd love to get.
They are also claiming the doubling of the scan rate for Hi-Def doubles the power requirement. I say bull on that too. Maybe a little but not significant.
Turns out the Energy Star numbers are a farce, they have not been monitoring the on time of a set but the standby mode! What a friggin joke.
Need real numbers here.....thank you
6-18-2005 As TVs grow, so do electric bills
Not long ago, Andrew Fanara was shopping with his wife for a new big-screen television. Everything was going fine, until the sales clerk discovered Mr. Fanara was an energy watchdog for the federal government. Pulling Fanara aside, the clerk confessed: His own new 61-inch TV gulped electricity the way a big SUV guzzles gasoline.
"The month after he got it, he got a call from his landlord, who noticed a big jump in the utility bill," recalls Fanara, team leader of the Energy Star program at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). "It was the kid's big-screen television."
Bigger screens aren't the only culprits for TV's growing energy draw. The nation's move to high-definition TV, or HDTV, requires sets to deliver more picture clarity, which draws more power.
Currently, federal standards measure only a set's "standby mode," when the TV is idle, even though "active mode" accounts for 80 to 95 percent of its annual energy use.
One 50-inch plasma high-definition TV (HDTV) was estimated to use 679 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.
A 32-inch liquid-crystal display with HDTV capability was pegged at 387 kWh per year.
By contrast, an older analog 34-inch TV was estimated to use just 209 kWh per year, NRDC tests found.
These boxes could use more than 20 billion kWh per year, at a cost of about $2 billion, another NRDC study says.
In that scenario, five 500-megawatt power plants would be needed to run these boxes, emitting 15 million tons per year of carbon dioxide, a global-warming pollutant.
Anyone have actual experience with this. I haven't been able to afford spending $4,000 for the 60" LCD I'd love to get.
They are also claiming the doubling of the scan rate for Hi-Def doubles the power requirement. I say bull on that too. Maybe a little but not significant.
Turns out the Energy Star numbers are a farce, they have not been monitoring the on time of a set but the standby mode! What a friggin joke.
Need real numbers here.....thank you
6-18-2005 As TVs grow, so do electric bills
Not long ago, Andrew Fanara was shopping with his wife for a new big-screen television. Everything was going fine, until the sales clerk discovered Mr. Fanara was an energy watchdog for the federal government. Pulling Fanara aside, the clerk confessed: His own new 61-inch TV gulped electricity the way a big SUV guzzles gasoline.
"The month after he got it, he got a call from his landlord, who noticed a big jump in the utility bill," recalls Fanara, team leader of the Energy Star program at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). "It was the kid's big-screen television."
Bigger screens aren't the only culprits for TV's growing energy draw. The nation's move to high-definition TV, or HDTV, requires sets to deliver more picture clarity, which draws more power.
Currently, federal standards measure only a set's "standby mode," when the TV is idle, even though "active mode" accounts for 80 to 95 percent of its annual energy use.
One 50-inch plasma high-definition TV (HDTV) was estimated to use 679 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year.
A 32-inch liquid-crystal display with HDTV capability was pegged at 387 kWh per year.
By contrast, an older analog 34-inch TV was estimated to use just 209 kWh per year, NRDC tests found.
These boxes could use more than 20 billion kWh per year, at a cost of about $2 billion, another NRDC study says.
In that scenario, five 500-megawatt power plants would be needed to run these boxes, emitting 15 million tons per year of carbon dioxide, a global-warming pollutant.