Samsung LN32B360 LCD HDTV Review - Power Consumption

Power Consumption Summary
• At our standard brightness, the LN32B360 uses an average of 59.5 watts • That would cost about $11.82 a year to run
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Power Consumption (9.41)

Our power consumption test looks at how much electricity a HDTV uses, and how much that is likely to cost you over the year. We foudn that the LN32B360 was a fairly good pick here: at our standard test level (where the screen is at a brightnes sof around 200 cd/m2), it used 59.5 watts and would cost about $11.82 to run (assuming you watched about  5 hours a day over a year) for the power it uses both while on and while it is in standby, awaiting your command. That's significantly less than our comparison TVs, which typically cost between $20 and $30 a year to juice up.

If you perfer your screen to be brighter, increasing the backlight level to the maximum level of 10 ups the yearly cost to a still very resonable $18.03.