California wants to ban Big Screen TV's

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

Originally Posted by NorthPoleMarathoner

Bingo. And they have to force people to buy them. If it was a good idea then they need no law. They would just go ahead and make them and sell them. They know nobody will buy so they must make it mandatory.

Same with fuel standards on cars.

Just idiotic. Some are complaining and making the usual statements about how this is going to decrease sales and punish businesses, while others are making statements (also erroneous) about how this is being pushed by the TV manufacturers because it will "force" people to buy their TVs.

It can't be both. Grow up, people.

[steve1282]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

Where do you get your facts? World Net Daily?

California has the largest economy in the U.S., and the seventh largest economy in the world.

Comparison between U.S. states and countries nominal GDP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Actually its number 8 in the updated list

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by USNRET04

So in case you haven’t heard, there’s a push on in Sacramento to ban certain types of big screen TV that use too much energy. Of course, by “certain types”, I mean roughly a quarter of all TVs in production today and every single plasma TV over sixty inches.

Needless to say, the people are not happy about this, and small businesses are firing back also, but perhaps the worst news came today with a simple pronouncement from Wired Magazine’s Gadget Lab that declared that such a law would be useless within two years, as “energy hogging TVs” would be gone by then anyway, thrown over in favor of LCD and “greener” TVs.

Basically, California’s planning to blow a bunch of money it doesn’t have to make a law it can’t enforce that’ll be rendered moot in two years anyway when the kind of TV it would ban can’t be found on the market.

Way to go, California legislature! Best start checking the want ads–come November I’d bet plenty of you will be run out on a rail.

Gavin Newsome is also endorsing this.

California Proposes Ban on Energy-Hogging HDTVs Starting in 2011 | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

So next spring I gotta buy a weed wacker with a catalytic converter because the moon bats in Cali think it's a good idea along with those new light bulbs with all the mercury inside. Now they want to screw up TV too.