Neuhauser said plans for the new funding include growing the team, expanding internationally, and "including insights for more efficient television advertising planning, buying and selling".
To date, the E.P.A.'s familiar "Energy Star" label for the most energy-efficient televisions has been based only on energy consumed while TVs are switched off (when they still drain power).
The two inventors, Timothy Addington and Azita Manson, of Scientific-Atlanta in Lawrenceville, Ga., have won a patent that they say makes it more efficient for digital television systems like DirecTV and EchoStar to carry emergency alerts.
The 2012 Obama campaign knew it had to be especially efficient in buying television time because it expected to be outspent by the combined forces of the Romney campaign and super PACs, including the American Crossroads organization, co-founded by Karl Rove.
Instead of litigation, LG Display now wants to claw its way to the top of the display market by investing more than $600 million to mass produce thinner, more energy efficient OLED panels for televisions, though analysts are skeptical about whether that will help it beat Samsung Display.
And for international distribution, he said, the Internet may prove a more efficient medium than cable television.
We have energy-efficient appliances; our television tube is cathode-ray; we keep nothing on standby.
The U.S. federal government isn't interested, but some state governments are; California, for instance, may pass a law this year that would make televisions more power efficient.
The question of access was further complicated because the most efficient mass cultural educator - television - became deranged by misguided populism, while a government that was preaching artistic reach to wider audiences also paradoxically presided over the cheapening and widespread closure of public libraries.
The analog transmissions of the time were also less efficient than the all-digital television signals broadcast in the United States today; those modern signals, Aereo says, make it possible to tune in to channels using an antenna the size of a coin.
