Matthew Botos

I finally plugged my HDTV into a Kill A Watt power meter, and was pleased to find it only draws around 160 watts when on to around 260 watts watching TV in power-saving mode. That’s much better than the 400+ watts I expected from previous research into TV Power Consumption.

Buying a LCD instead of plasma would’ve been a greener choice, but since it isn’t on that much, it was a fair trade to make for better colors. Of course, it would be nice if TV manufacturers enabled power-saving mode by default instead of making you hunt for it.

To put those naked numbers in perspective, 160 watts is about what I managed to put out on the elliptical trainer this morning.