Samsung Develop Expected 50% Less Power Consumption FPD

On November 1, Energy Star officially launched its revised specification for TVs, version 3.0, which promises to significantly reduce power consumption. After that date, TVs must meet the new spec to carry the Energy Star logo.

Flat panel manufacture such Sharp concern about energy saving in TVs. They launched many HDTV that has Power Saving mode for example Sharp AQUOS LC-52D65U.

Samsung, one of the biggest HDTV manufacture has big concern in Saving Energy issue too.

VentureBeat reported that a 52-inch liquid crystal display consumes about 300 watts of power today. A 32-inch display consumes about 150 watts. Samsung said that it will cut that number by 50 percent on its newest TVs next year.

HyunSuk Kim, vice president of research and development at Samsung, said at an event in San Francisco that the company will be able to create a 55-inch LCD TV next year that consumes about the same amount of electricity as today’s 32-inch TVs, or 150 watts. On standby, the number will be 0.3 watts consumed.

Another news from VentureBeat that Samsung is working on a variety of new technologies, such as 3D stereoscopic displays and something called Ultra-High Definition (which will have a screen resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels).

Via VentureBeat