HDTV Settings Equals Cheaper Electrical Bill
HDTV Settings = Cheaper Electrical Bill
Make a couple of simple menu changes to your HDTV’s picture settings and you can save you up to $50 a year on your power bill, according to the A/V experts at THX.
A survey by THX took more than a dozen plasma and LCD HDTVs and compared their pre- and post-calibration energy consumption.
THX discovered that a properly adjusted HDTV uses from 15% to 50% less electricity than a TV that uses the factory picture settings. The factory often presets the picture for use in a “store display”. Setting of ”Vivid” , “Dynamic” or “Hard”, will look great on a brightly lit showroom floor but garish in a dark living room.
THX assumed typical usage of four hours per day, at an electricity cost of 11.36 cents per kilowatt hour. Changing your HDTV picture setting from Vivid, Dynamic or Hard, to Standard, Cinema, Soft or to custom settings with lower brightness, backlight and contrast settings, could save you $15-$50 a year.
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