By Georgina Prodhan and Amanda Bensen
BERLIN (Reuters) - Manufacturers that are filed with the biggest European consumer electronics show their green credentials in vain to the Visitors more interested in bigger screens and brighter.
The participants at the IFA in Berlin, including Philips, Sharp and Fujitsu-Siemens tried to entice consumers with lower energy consumption, production methods that respect the environment and recycling.
Philips, maker of consumer electronic products in Europe, uses a green logo on their products more efficient energy use.
At IFA, the company said he would make public their energy management objectives in the coming weeks.
Sharp, the world's largest maker of solar panels, said its new LCD TVs offer an environmental outcome "unprecedented."
Fujitsu-Siemens has launched its first green personal computers for consumers, the Scaleo PC Green, which boasts energy efficiency, extremely quiet operation and halogen-free motherboard, which goes on sale this fall.
The company cited a Greenpeace study that puts environmental concerns in the third place of the priority list of buyers, after the price and brand.
But most visitors who spoke to Reuters at the show seemed uninterested or even confused about the importance of ecological concerns were at their options.
Richard Lee, an electrical engineer for 35 years, shrugged when asked if he preferred organic products. "I prefer Japanese products," he said.
Plasma has suffered in its battle with rival technology liquid crystal display (LCD) that uses more energy, and major manufacturers of plasma and LCD TVs told Reuters he hoped to reduce the power consumption of its models by about a 20 or 25 percent year.
But the size of television screens today is to find the devices consume three to five times more energy than smaller, older models, but more efficient.
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