Over the last decade electrical manufacturers have made it increasingly difficult for you to turn off your televisions. Thankfully that all looks set to change.
In the past few years television manufacturers have admitted an on/off switch spoils the look of a flat screen or wall mounted television, but with British homes wasting around £1bn every year and the public showing a keen desire to cut back on their global footprints, manufacturers are now beginning to think again about their products.
“Consumers were using remote controls, so the on/off button wasn’t being utilised,” said a source at LG Electronics, “but due to an increase in environmental issues, LG has decided to reintroduce it across its TV range.”
This restored option certainly beats pulling a plug out of the wall.
Sky Television has also taken up the challenge, after customers complained of losing programme settings when turning their Sky+ box off. The only other option is to leave it on standby and waste electricity. This week the company announced an energy saving feature that switches unattended + and HD boxes off immediately. Sky estimates their customers could collectively save around £7.5m a year and cut carbon emissions by 32,000 tonnes per annum.
Still, the best way to save energy is to own a smaller television with an off switch. Giant plasma screens consume four times the amount of electricity than that of a normal television and manufacturing one creates a mighty 430kgs of CO2.
