Hey! We all know that properly inflating your tires get you better gas mileage. But did you know that properly calibrating your plasma TV can improve your set’s energy performance? I didn’t! But while I was searching for some technical information about how to connect the aforementioned antenna to my Panasonic TH42pz700U I stumbled across a review on CNET that illustrated the following performance enhancements from “calibrating” the set. I had no idea that this was possible (nor do I know exactly how to do it do any of you?) But that’s a significant savings of about 1/3 of the juice!
| Panasonic TH-42PZ700U |
Picture settings |
| Default |
Calibrated |
Power Save |
| Picture on (watts) |
464.07 |
318 |
N/A |
| Picture on (watts/sq. inch) |
0.62 |
0.42 |
N/A |
| Standby (watts) |
0.58 |
0.58 |
N/A |
| Cost per year |
$141.28 |
$96.92 |
N/A |
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| Score (considering size) |
Poor |
| Score (overall) |
Poor
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