One of the advantages of buying a Freeview box is that you can still use your existing TV to watch digital TV before and after switchover.
Increasingly there are digital boxes and digital TV recorders launching that are optimised for low energy consumption.
Ricability carries out independent testing of digital TV products and shows the standby power consumption of digital TV products on its website. See the summary of energy efficiency for:
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