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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jrtallen @ May 21st 2008 1:26PM
You know what else can do this? AN ACTUAL TV SET, which I already have.
Andy Anonymous @ May 21st 2008 11:50AM
Way to miss the point...unless you really want to leave your TV set on while you're on vacation. This thing presumably uses less power and doesn't wear out your flat panel faster.
Frank Furter @ May 21st 2008 12:32PM
I don't think he missed anything. I could stick a $5 lamp timer on my LCD TV in the bedroom and the energy consumption would be barely noticeable, if at all. Genius? I think not.
Randy @ May 21st 2008 1:08PM
@ Andy Anonymous,
Some TV's have auto on/off timers.
Brian @ May 21st 2008 1:45PM
So, your on vacation and instead of running a cheap $49 low power lamp for 8 hours during the middle of the night, your would rather use your actual TV?
And I hate to break it to you, but not all TV's have timers. Go troll elsewhere.
Frank Furter @ May 21st 2008 2:06PM
Let's say you're on vacation for 5 nights. 8 hours of timed TV a night would be 40 hours of TV. So you believe that 40 hours of TV shortens the TV/bulb life enough that a $60 investment (product, tax, S&H), will make up for that?
W.C. Fields was right.
Wryker @ May 21st 2008 4:46PM
Err - yeah, using your LCD TV using the same power consumption as this device?! Where did you study electrical engineering - from a cracker jack box. And buying an old tube TV uses a ton of electricity too! And it's also NOT good for new TVs to be flipped on and off several times a day - do some research.