Final Draft Comment Response Summary Document ENERGY STAR Television Specification

®Final Draft Versions 4.0 and 5.0 ENERGY STAR TV Specification Comment Response Summary Document ®Final Draft Versions 4.0 and 5.0 ENERGY STAR TV Specification Comment Response Summary Document September 3, 2009 This document is intended to summarize comments submitted by stakeholders in response to the Final Draft Versions 4.0 and 5.0 (formerly called Version 3.1 Tiers 2 and 3) ENERGY STAR TV specification and includes an EPA response to each comment. Please note: this summary includes only those comments that EPA received permission to make public. Topic Comment EPA Response ON Mode: One stakeholder stated that the 4.0 requirements are EPA’s goal is that when Version 4.0 goes into effect that approximately 25% of available models will Version 4.0 too stringent and that many more highly featured and meet the ENERGY STAR requirements with reasonable selection across screen sizes. Based on EPA's larger products would be unable to meet the current dataset, there are feature-rich models from 20 different television manufacturers available today requirements that currently meet the proposed ON Mode requirements in a range of price points and sizes, utilizing conventional backlight technology (i.e., CCFL) and some models utilizing emerging, more efficient One stakeholder disagreed with EPA’s decision not to backlight technologies (e.g., HCFL, LED). The manufacturers with models that meet the Version 4.0 accept a counter proposal that would ...