Are plasma television is too high on electricity cost?

Question

Are plasma television is too high on electricity cost?

Answer 1

After one hundred viewing hours, you can have the TV calibrated by an ISF certified calibrator.  This will cut the running cost of any TV by approximately 50%.

Answer 2

Absolutely...almost as efficient as the DLP and LCD projection TV sets....

Eats about 500 watts....

But let's look at REAL numbers....

Based on 10 cents per kilowatthour and even 8 hours a day every day your monthly bill would be......

$12.00 per month....

It won't kill you financially, but I wouldn't want 3 or 4 plasmas playing all the time...

Answer 3

Don't know about plasmas right off, but I have a Mitsubishi 61" LCD TV that uses 225w, of which over half is just the lamp alone.  Running it 6 hours a day, it costs me about $5 a month.  That's about $60 a year.  Here's the problem; I have to replace the lamp about once a year and that's another $160.

Plasmas don't use lamps, so the power consumption will be lower, and you don't have to replace anything each year.