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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by dsr_ on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:32AM (#10835226)
If you want a huge TV on the wall, but you don't want to look at it when it's off, you have a few existing choices:

- put on a screensaver of art that you like

- close the doors of a cabinet around it

- roll down a screen in front of it

- roll it into a closet

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by mistermann on Monday January 04, 2016 @09:13AM (#10835690)
> put on a screensaver of art that you like

That's a great idea, although I wonder what the typical power consumption is of a big screen TV and how much it would cost to leave it on 16 hrs/day.

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by bjelkeman-again on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:30AM (#10836456)
This commercial LG LED[1], suitable to be on 24/7 has a power reduction mode at 100 watt. Let's assume that works when it is in screensaver/art mode and it would use 2.4 kWh/day.

A Tesla model S can get 240 wh/km, so the energy use of the display would power an electric car for 10 km. so for a year then it would be the equivalent of moving an electric car 3650 km. I don't drive that much, but it is actually about half of my yearly driving averaged over the last 10 years. Personally I rather turn that screen off and power my next car with it.

Edit: just saw you said 16 hours. Well you can do the math. :)

[1] http://www.lg.com/uk/commercial-display/lg-55XF2B

[2] https://my.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/tracking-lowest-kwhk...

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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by froo on Monday January 04, 2016 @08:24AM (#10835454)
There are also TV's mounted in 2-way mirrors, so that when you turn off your TV, it's still a functional piece of furniture.
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Re:LG made an 18-inch display you can roll up like a newspaper by dpark on Monday January 04, 2016 @01:04PM (#10837182)
The glare on those is pretty bad unless you want to only watch TV in the dark.
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