Michael Patrick Brady

My article on energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, green HDTVs ran today at Forbes.com.

The article is mostly about energy-efficiency, ensuring that your new HDTV doesn’t suck too much power and thus contribute to greater consumption and a larger carbon footprint.

I also talk about what new technologies are being introduced to reduce the environmental impact of HDTVs and how manufacturers are significantly altering the methods of production and greening their factories to ensure that they’re not contributing to the ultimate destruction of humanity and the biosphere.

The good news is that energy-efficiency not only has a positive effect on the environment, it will also reduce your electric bills, something that a lot of consumers will most likely be interested in considering the rising costs of energy.

I try to cover a lot of things (power consumption, manufacturing processes) that aren’t easily discernible when doing research on a potential HDTV purchase. I also talk about one element that should be high-profile in stores, Energy Star Ratings, and how they’re about to become better and more useful thanks to a revision in the criteria for inclusion that will take effect this winter.

Update: Picked up by Weather.com, the CBC and Canoe.ca.