Real Cost Of Owning A Large Screen LCD Or Plasma TV

Plasma TV's can burn 4 times as much energy as equivalent LCD TVs

clipped from www.kfoxtv.com How Much Does That Big-Screen TV Really Cost? With the holidays coming up, many retailers will be marking down the luxury 50 and 60-inch televisions, but the extra cost to your energy bill is not something most people think of, especially for consumers who have children that like to play video games. Souza said the technology of the modern flat-screen TVs is what contributes to it burning more energy. The cost of the bigger-screen TVs on electric bills vary by how long the television is left on. But even when turned off and plugged in, televisions burn energy. A 50-inch plasma television costs about 88 cents when off versus 18 cents for a 50-inch LCD model TV when it is turned off.