Does a 55" Plasma TV give off that much heat???

[davester]

Speedy wrote:
The (almost) instant-on feature of TVs means a plasma TV uses a fair amount of power even when shut off.

[quote=davester]
Yes they put off a lot of heat. However, I don't understand how it could be a big problem. Don't you turn the TV off when you're not watching a program? We have a Panny plasma and it is not a problem. The one or two hours a day it is on are not enough to cause problems.

There's an energy saver setting on our Panny plasma that disables that feature.

[jdc]

spacescape wrote:
TCL - 55" Class - LED - 5 Series - 2160p - Smart - 4K UHD TV with HDR - Roku TV seems like a decent buy.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/tcl-55-clas...Id=6358918

If this is gonna be a main TV -- and you have some time to shop around, or have a few extra bucks -- you might want to look into the 6 series TCL. They are a nicer unit all the way around -- especially picture wise.

55" is the sweet spot -- I have bought 2 55" 4k smart 5 series TCLs over the last little bit -- I paid $350 at amazon a few months ago, and $250(!) few years ago (black friday). =)

[NewtonMP2100]

.....my momma' told me......you better shop around.....

[sekker]

We miss our two plasma TVs. The Panasonic failed with a known graphics chip issue that was $700 to replace the board! We purchased an end-of-production Samsung, and it developed its own sickness.

The Panny was hundreds of watts - even off. The Samsung was under 200 W - ON. HUGE difference.

Both were 1080P but their picture blew away our 4k Quantum Dot Vizio, which was the best screen we could buy that wasn't OLED.

If you can make the heat work for you, I would keep the plasma.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

davester wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
The (almost) instant-on feature of TVs means a plasma TV uses a fair amount of power even when shut off.

[quote=davester]
Yes they put off a lot of heat. However, I don't understand how it could be a big problem. Don't you turn the TV off when you're not watching a program? We have a Panny plasma and it is not a problem. The one or two hours a day it is on are not enough to cause problems.

There's an energy saver setting on our Panny plasma that disables that feature.
Yeah, I don't remember my Panny plasma ever being instant-on.

[mikebw]

sekker wrote:

If you can make the heat work for you, I would keep the plasma.

Maybe build a compost digester above the unit?

[bfd]

The heat from one of those panels could be felt more than a foot away. Yeah, they get warm!

[Rolando]

mikebw wrote:
[quote=spacescape]
Ok, I believe I'm going to move the 3 year old Samsung 55" LED to the basement and pickup a new 55" for our family space. I'd like to get integrated ROKU for our main TV anyhow to simplify this for the family.

TCL - 55" Class - LED - 5 Series - 2160p - Smart - 4K UHD TV with HDR - Roku TV seems like a decent buy.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/tcl-55-clas...Id=6358918

Jeez! 55" 4K Smart TV for $399. miley-excited001:
Just a reminder Roku does not have HBO Max available at this time (if that's important to you).

[space-time]

My 2009 42” Panasonic Plasma uses about $150-200W when ON and I think almost no power when Off. I will check later today.

[LyleH]

My 2012 - 55" Panasonic Plasma TC-P55ST50 has a power Consumption (Rated power = 390 W and Standby power is 0.2 W. It has an excellent picture. As you can imagine, it throws out a lot of heat when on, but when it's been off for awhile I can't feel any heat on any part of the unit - screen or case.

The 50" TC-P50ST50 Rated power is 383 Watts, so that one must put out a lot of heat too. The 55" cost $1250 when new - my next replacement will be so much cheaper. LyleH