With EPA Energy Star 8.0 for TVs Behind Schedule, CTA Seeks Changes
CTA wants EPA to withhold release of Energy Star's Version 8.0 TV specification until the agency resolves TV set maker concerns on the requirements and its July 1 effective date, “given the industry’s normal model year changeover,” said Brian Markwalter,…
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senior vice president-research and standards, in comments filed Tuesday on the “revised final draft” released Oct. 24 (see 1710250021). EPA should keep V7.0 TV in force “while we work together to revise Version 8.0,” said Markwalter. The revised final draft “ignored the industry’s most fundamental concern that the Version 8.0 specification both limits consumer choice in picture presets and mandates numerous warnings related to picture presets and Special Functions,” he said. EPA representatives, who previously said they expected to release V8.0 in final form as soon as possible after Tuesday’s deadline for comments on the revised final draft, didn’t comment Thursday. Nor did the Natural Resources Defense Council that backed the revised 8.0. Work on finishing the spec is significantly behind schedule on the timeline EPA published in an April 21 cover memo aiming to complete it in summer.