NRDC Hopes EPA Will Include HDR in Next Energy Star TV Revision
Despite the findings in a Natural Resources Defense Council report that high dynamic range potentially could have a “bigger impact” on TV energy use than the jump to Ultra HD itself (see 1511200032), the group’s energy-efficiency point man has no…
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regrets that HDR didn’t get more play in the Energy Star 7.0 TV spec that took effect Oct. 30, he emailed us last week. EPA began working on the Energy Star 7.0 TV spec in December 2013 and finished the spec a year later when HDR technology still had little industry visibility, agency officials have said. NRDC’s “hope” is that EPA “will include HDR in its next revision” of the Energy Star TV spec, said NRDC Senior Scientist Noah Horowitz. “The missing piece of course is the absence of HDR content in the test method.” Unless an HDR-ready set is tested with real HDR content, one can’t “capture the extra energy consumed by these TVs when HDR content is played,” Horowitz said. EPA officials have told us they’ll monitor market developments to see whether HDR “correlates” with an increase in TV power consumption, and if it does, they'll begin revising the Energy Star TV spec to account for that.