Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I just moved into a new apartment and have been reading about all of the new power strips out there, especially the green ones. I was wondering if you had any suggestions about which "green "power strips are out there with decent joules ratings. And when I say green, I mean power strips that have the remotes or switches to turn off all electricity flowing to certain plugs and with at least 2 plugs that are always on. I was looking specifically at sub $50 because I will need two, but if that is not possible I could be convinced otherwise. Thanks!"
I'm one of your European readers and live in the Netherlands ;-)
I own a Toshiba 37WL58P (HDTV-ready). The reason i don't use HDTV is very simple. The Dutch-broadcasters have made a mess and it just doesn't work properly at the moment. Just before the WK (worldcup) the broadcasters started big compaigns for promoting HDTV. The few people that were willing to spend 300 euro's for a Samsung-setupbox were very dissappointed because the quality sucked and the HDMI-port just didn't work properly. Because these broadcasters make their own standards, the Samsung-box is the only choice at the moment.
A large broadcaster (UPC) has even currently stopped taking new customers for HDTV because of all the problems they're having.