Samsung cheats on TV energy efficiency tests

The European Commission is probing whether Samsung televisions’ sensed when they were being tested for energy efficiency and changed their power consumption to get better ratings than they deserved.

Samsung admits that its TVs radically changed their power-consumption during testing, but say that the low-power mode was inadvertently triggered by the tests, and was meant to be an automatic power-saving feature.

Sure it was.



4 thoughts on “Samsung cheats on TV energy efficiency tests”

  1. There are scientific explanations for why buttered bread is more likely to fall on the buttered side. I have not yet heard an explanation why Samsung’s inadvertent errors are always in their favor. Are we witnessing a miracle?

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