Comments on: Televisions Are Getting Bigger and More Energy Efficient http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/29/televisions-are-getting-bigger-more-energy-efficient/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/29/televisions-are-getting-bigger-more-energy-efficient/#comment-125341 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:36:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39567#comment-125341 My sister recently bought a 55″ that pulls only 80W.

]]> By: Ross http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/29/televisions-are-getting-bigger-more-energy-efficient/#comment-125335 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:14:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39567#comment-125335 My 40″ Samsung has a power rating on 180W. 

These are power saving being achieved in flat panel TVs.

]]> By: Luke http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/29/televisions-are-getting-bigger-more-energy-efficient/#comment-125333 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:51:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39567#comment-125333 I think what we should be taking from this is not how screen size affects power consumption, but rather how the TV display method affects power consumption.

My looking at it from this perspective – is that you can identify Plasma is the main reason people get the screen size-power consumption relationship mixed up. Plasma is the dominant display type on screens larger than ~55 inches, and boy do they guzzle them electrons. Isn’t this the reason most people see larger TV’s as consuming more electricity?

I’m hardly sure CRT’s are relevant in today’s display method demographic – nearly all have been replaced by low cost LCD’s, which are reasonable on the power consumption.

Currently, we’re trending towards new display technologies such as LED which has great efficiency along with a number of other technical benefits (higher contrast ratio, blacker blacks, etc). In the next 10 years the transition from LCD to LED will occur widely, and then we’ll start seeing other display technologies used, such as OLED or perhaps Active Matrix OLED.

Can’t wait!

]]> By: Ross http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/29/televisions-are-getting-bigger-more-energy-efficient/#comment-125316 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:12:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39567#comment-125316 Score for the EPA’s Energy Star requirements by screen area. A few years ago there were complaints about the ever larger screen sizes canceling out power savings of moving from CRTs to flat screens.  

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