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So Much For Booting The Cable Bill...


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Apparently, if you boot the cable bill and switch to Netflix and Hulu (or similar), you're still not saving that much since UHD TV's will cost consumers collectively $1 billion dollars more to run:

http://www.displaydaily.com/press-release/32993-ultra-high-definition-tvs-could-add-1-billion-to-viewers-annual-energy-bills

Interesting read for sure...

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But that additional electricity bill is on top of whatever you pay for service.

 

We just got a new 4K TV, 65" and uses 224 W to run

 

It replaced a 10 year old 65" 1080I CRT rear projsction TV, it used 185 W to run

 

 

Well worth the extra 39 W to me as little as we use it, I thought I was going blind with the other Tv  :blink:  it was going out to be fair.

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I turned off the TV Cable bill Three years ago. I have the internet bill which is 56 a month and Amazon Prime which is 99 a year. I have an UHF antenna which pulls in all the local channels. I do not miss Cable TV or the cost of it. As far as the energy requirements of the UHD TV's I'm sure that will come down as the technology moves forward.

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Take wherever you want that would be awesome

 

Yep.  But more.  I am totally convinced that if I understand the underlying technology of OLED that in the NTD future the stuff will be turned out much like wallpaper.  Generic.  Storebrand, sold by the square yard (at least in this backward country). 

 

Developments beyond it will be in different areas of imaging. 

 

Then, there is Hololens.  Hard to tell what it may lead to.  Interesting things happening in video.

 

Dave

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