Well maybe not that drastic, but this report by C¦Net highlights the fact that Plasma TV’s do consume a huge wattage of power when compared to their LCD and CRT brethren. Clearly Plasma TV’s tend to be huge 40-50 inch monsters and larger than LCD’s, but inch for inch Plasma TV’s eat a lot more power then LCD’s
What is also notable in this C¦Net report is that there is also mention of gaming consoles and how much power they draw. The PS2 draws about 50 watts whereas the Xbox 360 draws a whopping 160 watts. There is no mention of the power consumption of the PS3 or Wii. A quick search on Google though revealed another article at C¦Net that highlights that the PS3 consumes something in the region of 380 watts!
This is very interesting as an article on PS3focus.com a year ago predicted that the PS3 would be very power efficient and complained that the Xbox 360 overheated regularly. The Wii was always designed ot be a low power consuming device (the intention is that it is left on standby when it is not being used) as pointed out by Phicons.com. And indeed someone has done the research over at WiiModWii, where the peak wattage consumption of the Wii is measured at just over 25 watts.
So the moral of the story is buy a LCD TV and a Wii if you want to save the world.
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