Plasma Tv Heats Up Room

Yeah i dont own a single plasma but my 55in toshiba lcd gets pretty hot.

Plasma tv heats up room. Actually all light energy from the plasma or any light bulb turns to heat. The aging method of both lcd and plasma is the reduction of light producing capability so running the backlights higher or your plasma brighter will in theory reduce the life of the display. That s a big tv and i m sure its drawing at least a few hundred watts of power. Plasma tvs ranging from 42 65 inches use 90w 214w when powered on.

The e6 and g6 do get hotter than the b6 and c6 due to the picture on glass material and soundbar especially where the power cord is placed just go to a store and touch it and i find it problematic in a room that easily heats up. Essentially all of that power its drawing is going to eventually turn into heat in your room. It warms the dust in the air and walls of the room. Remember in order for the hot air to leave the room an equal amount of cooler air must enter the room.

The plasmas where i work at do generate a fair amount of heat but nothing out of the ordinary. However this problem diminished over the years due to pixel orbiting and related technologies. However i suspect most of the sets won t last that long anyway with faults scrapping the sets before screen aging makes them unuseable. Plasma tvs generate more heat and use more energy than lcd tvs due to the need to light phosphors to create images.

So a 500w plasma will heat the room exactly the same as a 500w. Now if you compare a 32 inch lcd tv that uses 50 watts when powered on to that of a 100 watt light bulb you d need two tvs to equal the bulb s output. The problem is that the heat is not leaving the room. Depends which model you re going for.

In the winter i don t even need to put the heat on because my tv makes my bedroom warm enough on it s own. This is actually a common problem in equipment and computer rooms. Plasma tvs do not perform as well at higher altitudes. Still a bit less heat than on a pana plasma though.

So its basically a psuedo space heater. The thing emits a lot of heat when it s on. You need to put the heat somewhere else if you don t want it in your room. Having a ceiling fan isn t going to do a whole lot.

I have a 42 panasonic viera plasma tv.