SI: Understanding The Features Of Sony?s Greenest Television: The Bravia WE5

[Christopher]

Here is a helpful image to demonstrate how the Sony Bravia WE5’s Presence Sensor works in action. It’s the first BRAVIA with an intelligent Presence Sensor, which detects your body heat and movement when you’re sitting near the screen. That means if you leave the room the sensor activates an energy-saving ‘Picture Off’ mode, while leaving the TV sound on. The picture turns back on as soon as you re-enter the room. This means you can be sure it won’t switch off when you’re sitting watching TV, but if you can hear your TV from the kitchen, the five minute Picture Off mode can be very useful. You can see from the image that it really does use less electricity in both of the modes (and hence saves money).

In fact, the WE5 is so sensitive that when in ‘Idle TV’ timer mode it actually switches the set to standby after a preset time. PC Power Management mode also switches to standby if no signal is received from a computer for 30 seconds. That’s especially handy if you’ve connected the TV to your computer for big-screen gaming action and want to pause without switching everything off. The sensor can be tailored to suit your viewing habits, with both the Picture Off mode and sleep mode settings able to kick in after a user set time of 5 minutes, 30 minutes or 60 minutes.

Also, when you’re watching a BRAVIA WE5 you’re experiencing the world’s first micro-tubular Hot Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (HCFL) backlight—which reduces power consumption by more than 50% compared to previous LCD TV models from Sony. That’s quite a difference! This is also the first BRAVIA with a new Energy Saving Switch. Did you know other televisions draw a small amount of power even in standby or when switched off? Now you can flip a switch to turn it off completely—drawing virtually no power. Switch it back on and the TV immediately returns to its previous state. It’s a more convenient alternative to manually unplugging the TV when it’s not in use.

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