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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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You know what else can do this? AN ACTUAL TV SET, which I already have.
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.
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.
@ Andy Anonymous,
Some TV's have auto on/off timers.
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.
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.
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.