lcd hdtv, projection televisions
        If you're concerned with the size of your family's carbon footprint (as you should be), then you need to consider how much energy all of your entertainment devices use, from your home theater receiver to that big screen 1080p HDTV mounted on the wall, to the smaller LCD HDTV sets scattered around your house. All of that sophisticated hardware can use up to ten percent of all the electricity your household uses. One of the biggest offenders in terms of excessive energy usage is widescreen plasma TVs. These TVs produce a great picture, but they use a lot more energy than other choices such as LCD HDTV sets, or projection televisions. Now projection televisions have long been derided for having lousy, washed-out pictures, but that description is more fitting to the older models of projection televisions. The newest models have such beautiful pictures that it's hard to tell them from the best LCD HDTV sets.
        So, if you have an older model plasma TV, do some research, go online and find out just how much energy it uses annually and what that translates into in terms of dollars and sense. You may just decide to recycle that old plasma set and upgrade to the latest LCD HDTV models available. Some of the latest LCD HDTV sets use fifteen percent less energy than earlier models, while some of the newest LCD HDTV sets are so green that they use forty percent less electricity! There are even TVs coming on to the market that can be manually shut off completely so that they use no electricity at all when not in use. Now that's green! I looked long and hard to find the most efficient LCD HDTV I could afford. What helped me in my quest for a greener TV was finding the Super Stop Entertainment website (http://www.superstopentertainment.com). Because of the good selection of electronics there, I was able to find an energy-efficient LCD HDTV that looked good and didn't cost too much. 
        Thanks to the good selection at the Super Stop Entertainment website, it was easy to home in on the TV that I finally purchased: an Imation MLT3221 32" LCD TV. This wasn't the biggest LCD HDTV on the website, but I decided to go with this one rather than a larger set because it uses less energy. I think that everyone needs to find a compromise between energy usage and having a big enough TV.