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Energy Star TV V 8.0 Takes Effect April 16, Comments Due Aug. 2

V 8.0 of the Energy Star TV spec takes effect April 16, EPA said Tuesday in releasing the third and final draft. Release was delayed after EPA became inundated with input, mostly relating to the “luminance requirements” and how Energy…

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Star-qualifying TVs could best implement the energy-saving automatic brightness control (ABC) feature, agency officials had told us. CTA in May warned EPA to stay out of the business of designing TVs (see 1706020034). A “comment-response document” disclosed the agency consulted a Japanese study published in 2008 by the Society for Information Display finding most viewers preferred a screen brightness of between 150 and 200 nits. EPA is proposing in the final draft to keep the luminance floor at a fixed 125 nits “to allow for some flexibility in user preferences, without varying too much from ISF's findings,” it said. Comments are due Aug. 2.