Fujitsu’s 63in Plasma Costs £210-a-year To Run February 09, 2007

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I like the big movie experience and I like the new wave of skinny LCD/plasma screens. Give them another year or so and I might buy one when their quality will be on a par with my old 32in CRT.

One thing you don’t often read in the literature for certain plasma screens is their ability to suck a local electricity grid dry. Take Fujitsu’s 63in plasma which, according to sust-it, the energy usage comparison site, said that it would cost £600 a year to run.

This was based on Fujitsu’s own fact sheet which had wattage down as 1896 Watts – thankfully, a mistake. Fujitsu has since hurriedly restated/corrected those figures to 605 Watts. That’s £210 a year in running costs alone. To be fair, most other big plasmas cost around the same.

That said, will anyone that can afford the £8,000 price tag in the first place worry too much about 57p per day? -Martin Lynch

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