Consumer Audio & DVD

You should know...

• When they're in standby, ENERGY STAR qualified audio products use as little as one tenth of the energy used by standard models.
• Australians spend more money to power home audio products when in standby than when actually in use.

Definitions

Below are brief descriptions of consumer audio and DVD products and their common operational modes as relevant to ENERGY STAR. The ENERGY STAR specification focuses on reducing energy consumption while the product is in the Standby Mode.

• Consumer Audio and DVD Products: To qualify, these products must draw current from a building's AC power electrical outlet via a power cord or via an AC power adapter that is shipped with the product. Also eligible are those products that have a power switch to interrupt the current flow from the power line and perform no operating functions except in active mode. This agreement does not cover professional, automotive, or solely battery-powered products. For a list of eligible consumer audio and DVD product categories, refer to Section 2, Qualifying products.
• Consumer Audio Product: A commercially available electronic product encased in a single housing whose intended purpose, other than providing non-video status displays, is the production or recording of signals in the audio domain as reproduced by headphones, loudspeakers, or other transducers.
• Digital Video Disc (DVD) Product: A commercially available electronic product encased in a single housing whose intended purpose is the production or recording of digitized video signals on a spinning reflective disc media.
• Standby Mode: The mode in which the product is connected to the power source, is possibly producing status information or time readout, is waiting to be switched to the active mode, and produces/records no video or audio signal (either directly audible, or audible as reproduced by headphones, loudspeakers, or other transducers). The product may exit the standby mode through an automatic timer activation, direct activation by the user, or a remote control command from the user. In standby mode, the product is substantially shut down but may continue to perform some functions (e.g., remote control sensing and clock).
• Active Mode: The mode in which the product is connected to a power source and is producing or recording signals in the video domain and/or audio domain as reproduced by headphones, loudspeakers, or other transducers. The power requirement in this mode is typically greater than the power requirement in standby mode.
• Disconnect: The mode in which the product is disconnected from all external power sources.
• Qualifying Products: For the purposes of this agreement, ENERGY STAR Partner agrees that consumer audio and DVD products include the following: cassette decks, CD players/changers, CD recorders/burners, clock radios, DVD products, equalizers, laserdisc players, mini- and midi-systems, minidisc players, powered speakers, rack systems, stereo amplifiers/pre-amplifiers, stereo receivers, table radios, and tuners.
• Effective Date: Products shipped from this date must meet the specification to qualify.

Key product criteria

Product	Phase I (effective 1/1/01) Standby Mode	Phase II (effective 1/1/04) Standby Mode
Consumer Audio Products	< 2.0W	< 1.0W
DVD Products	< 3.0W	< 1.0W