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From AARP: January & February 2008 Magazine:
To wake up refreshed tomorrow, scale back on screentime tonight.  In an Osaka, Japan, study, people who watched TV or used a computer more than three hours per evening were more likely than others to report insufficient sleep-even though their actual sleep duration was only 12 minutes less, on average.  Electronic media may increase your need for sleep and undercut its quality, say the researchers.

Hill & Knowlton, survey shows 60% of respondents agree that the government should regulate the sale of video games.  Among the poll's other findings: More than two-thirds of 18- to 34-year-olds play video games and fewer than one in five Americans think playing video games is a negative way to spend time with friends and family.
December 11, 2007
Washington Post
Excerpted from an article by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum

Q & A:  Always On
Q. Many devices that are “always on” while seemingly “off” draw power so that they can spring into action on demand. How much electricity does a television, for example, use when plugged in but not turned on?
A. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has done extensive studies of standby power since 1996 for the Department of Energy.
“For a single appliance, this may not seem like much,” the laboratory’s Web site says, “but when we add up the power use of the billions of appliances in the U.S., the power consumption of appliances that are not being used is substantial.”
For making an estimate, a laboratory Web site — standby.lbl.gov/data.html — provides tables of the minimum, average and maximum power used by appliances that cannot be switched off completely without being unplugged. For television sets, the laboratory estimates a minimum power use of zero watts, an average of 5 watts and a maximum of 21.6 watts.
December 11, 2007
New York Times
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY

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How many people are in the average American household?            2.55
 
How many televisions do they have?                                                   2.73
 
We are a society of more televisions than people!
 
50% of American homes have at least 3 televisions or more
19% of homes have only 1.
 
In 1975 only 11% of US households had more than 3 TVs…and 57% only had 1!
 
The average American home has the television on for well over 8 hours every day. That is an hour more than just a decade ago.
 
The average American watches 4 hours and 35 minutes of television each day.
 
Young people 12-17 years of age increased their television viewing by 3% just this year…a pretty big increase in just 12 months.
 
Teenage girls have dramatically increased their television viewing late at night and early in the morning…maybe they just don’t sleep anymore?
 
All the above statistics are from Nielson 2006

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