• Gigaom, Monday, June 27, 2011 4:17 PM

"Here's yet another reason to kill the set-top box as we know it: The boxes consumers use to control their cable TV subscriptions and record shows to their DVRs are incredibly wasteful," writes Gigaom's Ryan Lawler.

In fact, he adds, a recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council tabulates annual cost in energy bills to U.S. residents at more than $3 billion. Those costs mount even when no one's actually watching TV two-thirds of the time, which is of course an environmental no-no.

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