Flat screens to go green or be banned

By Darren Osborne on 10 October 2007

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dan_rox77
11/10/2007 06:01 PM

Hmph. Some idiotic green tree-huggers at work again to force all their energy rubbish down our throat.

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twirpy
12/10/2007 11:52 AM

dan_rox77 i think you need to see al gore in "an inconvenient truth"... it is inconvenient to our tv viewing pleasure that we are destroying the earth certainly... you wanna explain to your grandchildren one day their earth is all messed up coz you wanted to watch your footy on a big screen?! these tvs dont even get 1 star??!! but dont stress - i am sure they will make greener tvs... x

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Tandy
22/10/2007 11:29 AM

One factor I think in favour of plasma is that its power consumption is variable, no power on black pixels, and further reduced at lower brightness levels, whereas LCD black pixels consume the same amount of power as white pixels. Maybe future plasmas will exceed LCD efficiency? I was feeling guilty about buying my plasma a few months ago but I have been surprised at how cool it runs in my home (Panasonic cinema setting) compared to the heat coming off the back of the ones in the store running as bright as they can to try to match the LCD brightness.

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joannef
01/12/2007 12:26 AM

So are they good or bad for the enviroment? Will they be banned??

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