SMPTE Says It’s Happy to Help Update IEC TV Power Test Clip, But Nobody Asked
Playing any role in updating the International Electrotechnical Commission’s 62087 standardized test clip for measuring TV energy consumption is “not an area of specialty” for SMPTE, Bruce Devlin, the society’s vice president-standards, told participants in a Thursday webinar (see 1801250044).…
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“The way that SMPTE tends to work is, if a bunch of proponents believe that SMPTE would be a good repository for that test clip because of the experts within the SMPTE community, a project could be started within SMPTE to do that,” said Devlin. “Nobody’s approached us. It’s not something the CTA have talked to us about in their liaisons. So we probably wouldn’t say 'no,' it’s just that nobody’s actually asked, and nobody’s started the work.” CTA started an “active project” with outside groups to update its seven-year-old CTA-2037 standard that references the TEC 62087 test clip on measuring TV power consumption, said Brian Markwalter, senior vice president-research and standards, in September (see 1709250043). How to measure TV energy use by more up-to-date standards has been a hot discussion during EPA’s extended proceeding to update the Energy Star TV specification for v8.0 (see 1703160039). Markwalter didn’t comment Friday.