UHD TV's could raise energy costs considerably

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Originally Posted by spectre08

if the demand is there for those panels, the manufacturers will make it happen.

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In 2015 I can still buy a 505HP Camaro that gets 20mpg, or a Ford F-150 that can tow 12,000 pounds and gets 23mpg

Big differences here though. Gas Guzzlers had existed for decades when fuel efficiency standards were introduced. Many Americans viewed burning as much gas as your car could choke down as something of a birthright.

Consumers don't have the same associations here between energy consumption and power (ie people don't automatically think 'more is good' when it comes to their flat-panel's energy use). And hardly anybody has even seen a HDR panel yet.

And even when people finally see them there's no real reason to think significant numbers of them will think 'get my State Senator on the phone, we have to keep these babies coming, the energy efficient panels just ain't gonna do'. At least at this point there's not.

But I might just be projecting my own doubts with that last bit.

HDR might turn out to be one of those 'OMG I have to have it' features.