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> That prediction didn’t pan out because TV manufacturers latched onto a loophole in the EU rule: While it grades TVs on the electricity they use in their default setting, it lets them offer other settings if the set warns the user about the potentially higher power draw.

I've noticed PC monitors doing this as well - one of them was winking and nudging so hard that you couldn't even access the settings before disabling the "eco power saving mode", and I couldn't find a way to turn it back on without a factory reset. Would name and shame if I remembered the brand but it was one of the big ones.




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