lbnl 42393 energy use of televisions and videocassette recorders in the us karen b rosen alan k meier environmental technologies division lawrence berkeley national laboratory university california 94720 march 1999 this report is available online at http eetd lbl gov ea reports work was supported by assistant secretary for efficiency renewable department under contract no de ac03 76sf00098 i executive summary study undertaken to estimate current residential tvs vcrs united states ownership usage statistics were taken from media research while average power values derived measurements nearly 500 units shown figure es 1 levels measured when grouped product characteristics these indicate that tv active draw closely related screen size see table manufacturer standby only vcr idle are year manufacture have been steadily decreasing
