OK I will confuse this topic with facts. I hooked up my clamp to a Samsung 50" TV with a sound bar. The audio amp is disabled and it just feeds optical out to the bar that is separately powered. There is a USB connected 3.5" drive that powers up with the TV. With the TV off it is bouncing between 10ma and 20 ma which I assume is the CPU polling the network occasionally. Turned on, it really does not make a whole lot of difference whether you are watching antenna, local disk drive on the USB or streaming off the internet. it is mid 600s ma Off 10-20ma 12-24w On watching antenna or local drive 610-630ma 73-76w On watching a stream 650-670ma 78-80w It bounces around a bit both ways so I assume caching or buffering is the issue. All in all these things are pretty efficient. As a sanity check my 20" Sylvania CRT TV uses about the same with power off (standby) and 28 watts on for about 1/6th the picture area.
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7 years ago