Cost varies by set, what you are watching, and your television settings. I don't think your numbers are right. Take a look at this
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It's the 'official Energy Guide label for a 65-inch 2013 plasma TV'. Even in your extreme usage situation, 16/5 * 346 kwh = 1107.2 kwh annual consumption. At 14.09p/kWh, that only comes to £156/year ($251 US). (I think I got the math right, but it's 4:00 am.) And that is for a 65" plasma.
If you look at the chart at that
link, it cost about 2.5 times as much to run a plasma as a similar sized LED. If you divide your £156 by 2.5, the cost of running a comparable LED would be £156/2.5 or £62.4 (US$100) so the premium would be £93.6 (US$150)/yr or £7.8 (US$12.52)/month or £0.26 (US$0.42)/day. Again, for a very large television running sixteen hours a day.
Even with that math, plasma is worth the premium, IMHO.
I have 60, 50, 43, and 42 inch plasmas in my home plus an AVR, four LCDs, a 36 inch CRT, four desktops running gaming video cards, five laptops, an electric clothes dryer, two refrigerators, a chest freezer, electric stove, electric washer, 13 DVRs, four air conditioners, and countless tablets electronic devices and a family that does not know how to turn things off and my electric bill averages £125 (US$200)/month -- US$2418 over the last twelve months. The 43" plasma probably is on sixteen hours a day.
I'm exhausted...time for bed. Gonna drift off in front of that 43" plasma television.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
One thing to consider is running cost. An LCD TV typically uses 40-50W of power; a large plasma screen can use 500W or more. Not an issue if you only have the TV turned on for an hour or two a day, but if you're the sort of person who turns the TV on when you get up in the morning, and leaves it on until you go to bed at night, the cost can really add up.
Let's take an extreme example and say that you have your 500W TV turned on for 16h a day. 500W x 16h = 8kWh. I'm currently paying 14.09p/kWh for electricity, so that would cost me 8 x 14.09p = £1.13 a day, or £411 (about US$660) a year to operate my TV.
Something to consider!
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