EU to block high power tv consumption from March 2023

rumple9 · 25 Oct 2022 at 18:44

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/t...he-eu-new-consumption-limits-are-too-low.html

Important for those of us who game on TV's or plan to buy one.

Although the article centres on 8k Tvs you will see from the table the maximum power limits on other Tv's. So a 4k 55" panel will have a maximum wattage of 84 watts (my current 4k 55" Oled uses 110w). As the article says manufacturers will have to cut features to meet these limits. Even though this is an EU regulation I suspect manufaturers will alter all models will to be sold worldwide (I cannot imagine them making 2 different models for EU and non EU).

The EU brought in similar regulations in relation to vacuum cleaners some years ago.

Probably won't be long before something similar happens to Graphics cards

Deleted member 77746 · 25 Oct 2022 at 18:53

rumple9 said:
Probably won't be long before something similar happens to Graphics cards

I hope it does. These things latest gen suck too much power.

no_1_dave · 25 Oct 2022 at 19:14

There are already threads about this in the monitor and the TV forums

I think it's ridiculous but there is another EU meeting regarding this before Christmas where they're taking into consideration the arguments against it so it will hopefully change

LabR@t · 29 Oct 2022 at 09:53

Good job we are not in the eu then.

chroniclard · 29 Oct 2022 at 10:04

LabR@t said:
Good job we are not in the eu then.

Not sure they will make special models for the sick man of Europe.

Grim5 · 30 Oct 2022 at 02:37

LabR@t said:
Good job we are not in the eu then.

Given the population size of EU vs Britain, it's likely you'll just get the same models as the EU anyway, lmao!

Hotwired · 30 Oct 2022 at 03:18

LabR@t said:
Good job we are not in the eu then.

There's still a market for a country with lower standards than the EU, When the production line produces TV's out of spec for the EU they can be shipped to us.

Wooo

chaparral · 31 Oct 2022 at 02:53

This requirement is only for the default picture settings it ships with and not for HDR

The requirements relate to the default picture mode that a TV ships with. TVs can still offer other picture modes that consume more power as manual selections that must present on-screen a warning notification making the user aware of the increased energy consumption

Semple · 31 Oct 2022 at 06:37

My LG oled 55" uses 107W max I believe, which is a whole 23W over the proposed max - hardly going to make much difference.

When an equivalent sized plasma uses 300+W, they'd do better running a campaign to encourage people to ditch old plasma technologies.