Large screen TVs

**danceswduckys** · 01-04-2007, 12:48 AM

My mom works for the electric company here and a customer called saying her electric went up a lot over the last few months. It seems she bought a 50 inch projection TV. My mom did the math to help the little old lady figure out how much it cost to run the TV per month...$50! It's even more for the very popular plasma screens.

As for me, I have one 27" TV without cable and it works quite nicely.

**Sari** · 01-04-2007, 01:32 AM

Wow! Another reason not to get one.

**Luv2BeFrugal** · 01-04-2007, 01:38 AM

Ouch!! That's crazy!! I'll pass on the giant TV...we've got a 27", too. Works just super for us!

**ama** · 01-04-2007, 08:12 AM

Dh just bought a flat screen 32 inch. Have to keep my eye on the electric bill but there was an article on Yahoo somewhere about this. Yikes!

**FrugalMomof3** · 01-04-2007, 08:20 AM

Wow that's a substantial amount, glad I dont have a TV like that lol I would freak!

**banana** · 01-04-2007, 08:54 AM

Wow that is just crazy! We bought a new 37 inch flat screen tv for dh's birthday in October. I havent noticed a big change in my electric bill.

**ewokgirl** · 01-04-2007, 12:57 PM

Are you serious?!? Those TVs can eat up that much energy? Was that lady leaving it on 24/7 or what? I can't believe that in this day and age, new "improved" products like the flat-screen plasmas are such energy guzzlers! Well, yes, I can. U.S.A.: home of the brave and free and supposedly-entitled to more than their fair share of the world's dwindling energy resources.

**Amanda W** · 01-04-2007, 02:13 PM

We have a 52" projection TV. We bought it when we bought our house, so I can't compare our power bills, but our bill runs about $86 a month on the budget billing plan. I don't really think that's an exorbitant amount, and my DH is a sports nut and has the TV on constantly.

**Cricketlegs** · 01-09-2007, 11:45 PM

We have a 50 inch plasma and my electric bill has gone down each month like it normally does and the heat/gas bill has gone up.

I see no change what so ever in the past4 months.

**suesue** · 01-10-2007, 12:12 AM

I've never heard that about televisions. They generally aren't big electric users. Anyone else have this experience of larger electric bills? I'd be interested in knowing.

Thanks,

**Neeley** · 01-10-2007, 01:21 AM

We have 7 TVs ranging from the smallest being a 20 inch nd the largest one is a 30-something (not real sure) inch. At any given time (including the midlle of the night) no less than 4 are on - the ones in the front living room, the back living room, Ali's room, and the dog's room. The two in John's room and the one in the kitchen are usually off at night. With that said, our power bill only runs $250 a month and we have a total electric house (dryer - that runs atleast 4-6 hours daily, heat, water heater, stove ....all electric) plus we have a pool and the pump uses a lot of electricity. I cannot imagine TVs pulling that much power - if they did my power bill would be soooo much higher.

**nuisance26** · 01-10-2007, 08:26 AM

http://www.cornhusker-power.com/householdappliances.asp Says regular tvs average 200 watts.
http://my.dteenergy.com/home/savings...tingCosts.html Says projection TV's average 200watts.
There are alot of sites that give appliance energy usage estimates. $50 sounds waaaaaaaay to high.

**littlemotherhaywood** · 01-10-2007, 09:47 AM

That doesn't seem right to me, but I'd love to hear it was absolutely the case so I could convince dh he doesn't need one, lol

**i.m.cheap** · 01-10-2007, 10:20 AM

We have one TV, a 12 year old 27 inch. It is turned on maybe an hour or two a day. Some days it is never turned on. We are just not TV watchers, really.