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Adjust Your HDTV to Save Money

Save on your electric bill by reducing the brightness

Christine Glade/Getty Images Dim the screen on your TV to save money. You can by reducing the brightness on your high-definition TV. Many are shipped from the factory set at a "retail mode" of screen brightness that displays optimum picture clarity in a showroom. Go to your TV's setup menu and look for "home mode" or some other way to dial down the brightness. This reduces and can possibly save you $50 a year. Next: Sid Kirchheimer writes about consumer and health issues. Have a question for Sid Kirchheimer about a new product, a new kind of bank account? Check out the If you don’t find your answer there,

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