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Sometimes, a market transforms quicker than a program’s tiered efficiency level does. That’s the case with the U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR Audio/Video (A/V) program. The A/V program covers any mains connected product that offers audio amplification and/or optical disc player functions. When version 2.0 came out in late 2009 (tier 1), it included a more [...]

The US EPA got closer to finalizing the next ENERGY STAR set-top box (STB) efficiency program requirements with an addition that will allow the devices to go into a much lower power down mode than previous versions. As covered in previous blogs, reigning in STB power consumption has proven to be a little trickier than [...]

Based on last month’s ENERGY STAR Game Console stakeholder call, it looks like there are still a few more hoops to jump through in order to reach the program’s “Game Over” screen.  As mentioned in an earlier blog, ENERGY STAR Gets Serious About Games, the power consumed by these consoles (i.e., Wii, Xbox, PlayStation, etc.) [...]