Standby Product Profile - DVD Players/Recorders and DVD/VCR Combo

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Please note: This publication is simply an historical document as work is currently underway to regulate all home entertainment equipment.

Background

In 2002, the Ministerial Council on Energy released "Money isn't all you're saving" a long-term strategy to address excessive standby energy used by consumer appliances and equipment. This strategy is also known as the "1 Watt" standby power plan.

Summary

This standby product profile covers Digital Video Disc players, more commonly known as DVD players. DVD players are gaining increasing popularity in the Australian market place. DVD players deliver superior sound and picture quality and compared to VCRs, offer much greater user convenience. DVD players are also able to play CDs and video games, and in some cases link to the Internet and even record and play home movies.

This standby product profile for DVDs covers the following broad topics:

product description
current ownership and trends
relevant modes for the "1 Watt" standby power plan
known standby data for the product
greenhouse emissions
current overseas policies and trends for the product
proposed government target to meet the "1 Watt" standby power plan.

To support the preparation of this and other profiles, NAEEEC commissioned store surveys of products in major retail stores during 2001, 2002 and 2003 to collect standby measurements from a wide range of appliances and equipment. The results of these measurements are available in NAEEEC Report 2003/04.

Government Target

In accordance with the National Standby Strategy, NAEEEC intends to recommend to the Ministerial Council on Energy an 'interim' target. The purpose of which is to provide governments with confidence that Australian products will meet the ultimate target, of one watt in 2012. If the 'interim' target is not met in the specified year, government will commence dialogue with industry to explore other options, including the possibility of moving to Stage 2 mandatory measures.

The interim target for 2006 is:

an off mode power of less than 1 Watt
a passive standby power consumption of less than 4 Watts
an automatic power down time of not more than 30 minutes

The ultimate target for 2012 is:

an off mode power of less than 0.3 Watt
a passive standby power consumption of less than 1 Watt
an automatic power down time of not more than 10 minutes

Government will announce whether this product should be targeted for stage two intervention under the National Standby Power Strategy (involving possible regulatory intervention) or whether the abovementioned actions together with industry intervention have been successful in meeting the target at the NAEEEC Forum in the year: 2007.

This page last modified 23 February 2006