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Plasma TV's will follow the same faith as the condescend light bulb under an EU Ban.

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  • #2
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Flat Screen Plasma TV sets will follow the same faith as the condescend light bulb under a Common Market ban due out this spring.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1112110/Energy-guzzling-plasma-TVs-banned-Brussels-eco-blitz.html
    That's from the Daily Mail - please pass the salt.
    Plasma screens have been nicknamed the '4x4s' of the living room because they use up to four times as much electricity and are responsible for up to four times as much carbon dioxide as traditional cathode ray tube sets.
    This is nonsense; plasma displays use about as much power per square meter as a CRT or an AMLCD television.
    A spokesman for the Department-for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the plasma TV would not be banned completely, with eco-friendly sets remaining on the market.
    So plasma screen TV's are not being banned after all... :rolleyes:


  • #3
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    yeah but tvs are getting larger


  • #4
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    djpbarry wrote: »
    That's from the Daily Mail - please pass the salt.
    This is nonsense; plasma displays use about as much power per square meter as a CRT or an AMLCD television.
    So plasma screen TV's are not being banned after all... :rolleyes:
    The Daily Mail didn't make it up. :rolleyes:

    http://news.google.ie/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn&ncl=1291766621

    Show me where one would purchase a 42" CRT.


  • #5
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    The Daily Mail didn't make it up.
    I didn't say that they did.
    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Show me where one would purchase a 42" CRT.
    What's your point?


  • #6
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    djpbarry wrote: »
    I didn't say that they did.
    This comment from you.
    djpbarry wrote: »
    That's from the Daily Mail - please pass the salt.
    djpbarry wrote: »
    What's your point?
    You dont get excessive sized CRT TVs :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Flat Screen Plasma TV sets will follow the same faith as the condescend light bulb under a Common Market ban due out this spring.

    FATE


  • #8
    djpbarry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,104 ✭✭✭✭djpbarry


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    You dont get excessive sized CRT TVs
    :confused: And?


  • #9
    probe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭probe


    Plasma TVs tend to consume more power compared with LCD TVs as a category, but mainly because a larger proportion of big screen sets are plasma rather than LCD. Typically they only consume about 10 to 15% more electricity per cm2 of screen size. Plasma TVs (eg the Kuro range from Pioneer) deliver far better blacks compared with LCD sets.

    This smells like a british initiative that they are pushing through the EU. Like the British ban on bottles of water over 1dl and similar at airport inflight baggage screening, and the requirement to show a photo ID at the gate before boarding. Which are now EU requirements. Take your shoes off. etc etc. Make life as difficult as possible - which is a good old british tradition. The only country in Europe with no constitution. 21st century colonialism via the EU as a platform.

    And of course Britain isn't the only big EU country taking advantage of the totally undemocratic EU setup. France and Germany use the EU as a tool to enforce their laws in the rest of Europe too.

    Instead why not clean up the electricity supply. Promote passivhaus insulation standards. Deliver integrated, electrified, reliable public transport of a quality that puts people off using their car.


  • #10
    robtri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭robtri


    probe wrote: »
    Instead why not clean up the electricity supply. Promote passivhaus insulation standards. Deliver integrated, electrified, reliable public transport of a quality that puts people off using their car.

    Sure why would they do that cars bring in lots of tax euro's!!!:rolleyes:


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