Plasmas on their way out?

[Corasik]

nooo >devil<. dynamic contrast stays off on my sony. my lcd monitor does exactly the same though - 72w on black, 75w on white. bare in mind those figures for my sony were with the backlight on full though (setting of 10). i normally leave it at 7 in the day and 1 at night. ill do some more testing later on

Interesting, perhaps its the overdrive then, certainly earlier TFT's drew more power displaying dark screens. Being honest, I've not actually checked my own TFT, only my plasma Naturally I'll concede the point, as your evidence is more than sufficient. Still LCD panels are rather consistant in their power use wouldnt you say Just a few % difference between black and white, compared to plasma's massive differences.

 

[james.miller]

Interesting, perhaps its the overdrive then, certainly earlier TFT's drew more power displaying dark screens. Being honest, I've not actually checked my own TFT, only my plasma Naturally I'll concede the point, as your evidence is more than sufficient. Still LCD panels are rather consistant in their power use wouldnt you say Just a few % difference between black and white, compared to plasma's massive differences.

yup, agreed

 

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All I do is watch space films on my baby, so I'm probably generating power to put back into the national grid. I can see the adverts now:

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I'l get my coat

I'l be buying a meter to plug in at the wall socket and check power usage, but tbh it isn't on my priority list of things to buy. BG capacitors, blu-rays, and music are up there at the mo, as well as many glasses of wine for the most expensive thing of all, Mrs -Ad-