‘Active Project’ Underway at CTA to Update TV Power Measurement, Says Markwalter
CTA started an “active project” to update its seven-year-old CTA-2037 standard on measuring TV power consumption, said Brian Markwalter, senior vice president-research and standards, in a statement. How to measure TV energy use by up-to-date standards became a hotbed of…
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discussion in March when EPA announced it would deny Energy Star Version 8.0 certification to TVs found not to be comparably energy-efficient when tested “with content that reflects a variety of typical viewing experiences,” versus testing done using the existing IEC 62087 test clip standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission. Members of the CTA working group (R4 Working Group 13) tasked with revising CTA-2037 “want to ensure that the revised standard measures TV power in the way consumers “typically watch television,” said Markwalter.