Balloting Concludes on Revised CTA Standard for Measuring TV Power Consumption
Balloting concluded last week on revisions to the CTA-2037 standard on measuring TV power consumption, Brian Markwalter, CTA senior vice president-research and standards, told us Monday. “The revised standard, called CTA-2037-B, should publish this week,” said Markwalter. Working group members…
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tasked with revising CTA-2037 wanted to be sure the revised standard measures TV power in the way consumers typically watch TV, meaning not only the content, but also the TV settings that consumers typically use, said Markwalter in September when work began (see 1709250043). How to measure TV energy use by up-to-date standards became a hotbed of discussion during the EPA’s effort to draft its Energy Star Version 8.0 TV spec in a proceeding that remains open and unresolved 18 months after it began (see 1801010001).