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42inch LCDs use 3 time more power than 28inch CRT TV?
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17/12/2007 17:22:12
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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>So said a NBC News story last night about green/conservation.
>
>Does this sound right to you?... Certainly doesn't to me (but I'm often wrong on this kind of stuff).
>
>cheers

It certainly sounds queer to me. Comparison of surface areas: 42^2 / 28^2 = 2.25. And LCDs are supposed to use less power than CRTs. Perhaps there is some technical limitation to building them large and efficient at the same time, but I wouldn't see why.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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