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are plasma television is too high on electricity cost?

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1. Absolutely...almost as efficient as the DLP and LCD projection TV sets.... Eats about 500 watts.... But let's look at REAL numbers.... Based on 10 cents per kilowatthour and even 8 hours a day every day your monthly bill would be...... $12.00 per month.... It won't kill you financially, but I wouldn't want 3 or 4 plasmas playing all the time...
2. After one hundred viewing hours, you can have the TV calibrated by an ISF certified calibrator. This will cut the running cost of any TV by approximately 50%.
3. Don't know about plasmas right off, but I have a Mitsubishi 61" LCD TV that uses 225w, of which over half is just the lamp alone. Running it 6 hours a day, it costs me about $5 a month. That's about $60 a year. Here's the problem; I have to replace the lamp about once a year and that's another $160. Plasmas don't use lamps, so the power consumption will be lower, and you don't have to replace anything each year.