Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Cable TV Boxes Cost $1.5B When Off | Synopsis

Cable TV Boxes Cost $1.5B When Off

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Not many of us watch television 24 hours a day — but we might as well. Even when people’s TVs are turned off, the set-top boxes from our cable company, telephone company or satellite provider keep on running, gobbling energy and jacking up our electric bills. The worst offenders are digital video recorders (DVRs), which are essentially always on. Today the industry announced a voluntary program to try to rein in those power-hungry devices. “It’s really an unprecedented agreement,” said Doug Johnson, Vice President of Technology for the Consumer Electronics Association. “We estimate that consumers are going to save once this agreement is fully implemented over the next five years $1. 5 billion dollars annually, so it’s a significant agreement in terms of its energy savings. ” The move comes as federal regulators debate whether to impose national energy standards on the box-top sets.

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Noah Horowitz

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Relevance: 0.859121

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-0.0514437“reduce the stand-by powers in the middle of the night is to unplug (the boxes),” said Horowitz, ...
-0.12859“reduce the stand-by powers in the middle of the night is to unplug (the boxes),” said Horowitz, “and that’s not an attractive option for most consumers.”
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.1800337
  • Mean: -0.09001685
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Doug Johnson

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0.0758243“It’s really an unprecedented agreement,” said Doug Johnson, ...
0.0583135“It’s really an unprecedented agreement,” said Doug Johnson, Vice President of Technology for the Consumer Electronics Association. “We estimate that consumers are going to save once this agreement is fully implemented over the next five years $1.5 billion dollars annually, so it’s a significant agreement in terms of its energy savings.”
0.109308Johnson disagreed, arguing that “the voluntary agreement really represents the best way to meet the government’s goal of saving energy” ...
0.0974327Johnson disagreed, arguing that “the voluntary agreement really represents the best way to meet the government’s goal of saving energy” by protecting “innovation, competition and consumer choice.”
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.3408785
  • Mean: 0.085219625
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

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Additional Info:

Technology: TVs

Overall Sentiment: -0.0370664

Relevance: 0.664058

Company: CEA

Overall Sentiment: -0.210978

Relevance: 0.683255

Company: Comcast

Overall Sentiment: 0.0479971

Relevance: 0.647949

Company: Time Warner Cable

Overall Sentiment: 0.194582

Relevance: 0.545009

Company: Time Warner

Overall Sentiment: 0.0170483

Relevance: 0.458867

Company: Bright House Networks

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.436797

Company: Arris

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.40038

Company: Cisco

Overall Sentiment: 0.151658

Relevance: 0.398825

Company: DirecTV

Overall Sentiment: 0.0720923

Relevance: 0.395612

Company: Motorola

Overall Sentiment: 0.110018

Relevance: 0.366267

Company: EchoStar Technologies

Overall Sentiment: 0.0759648

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Organization: Consumer Electronics Association

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Organization: CEA

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Organization: National Resources Defense Council

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Organization: EPA

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Organization: government

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FieldTerminology: energy bill

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.580044

FieldTerminology: DVRs

Overall Sentiment: -0.117014

Relevance: 0.576395

FieldTerminology: consumer electronics

Overall Sentiment: 0.0684549

Relevance: 0.434979

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