Tests by ComplainTV, a researched group funded by the EU, have run some tests and found out that while Samsung TVs do a good job at reducing power consumption during efficiency tests, those results don't really hold up in the real world.

According to The Guardian, the issue has to do with Samsung TVs' "motion lighting" feature, which is designed to reduce screen brightness when there's a lot of motion on screen, saving power. Evidently, it activates during power efficiency tests much more often than it does in real life. The European commission is set to investigate whether this is intentional.

Obviously, there are comparisons to be drawn with VW which was recently discovered to be cheating emissions tests with nearly half a million of its diesel-powered cars. Samsung insists this situation is different because motion lighting is a standard, public feature and just happens to activate a lot during testing. A Samsung spokesperson put it this way in a statement to The Guardian:

There is no comparison. This is not a setting that only activates during compliance testing. On the contrary, it is an 'out of the box' setting, which reduces power whenever video motion is detected. Not only that, the content used for testing energy consumption has been designed by the international electrotechnical commission to best model actual average picture level internationally.

Whether motion lighting is specifically designed to cheat power efficiency tests or not, the discrepancy at least proves that the tests aren't accurate. And the more this happens, the more you have to wonder if any of them are.

Source: The Guardian via Gizmodo

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