HDR: class and kWh per 1000 h
The same as the SDR figure, but while playing high dynamic range video, which usually drives the screen brighter — so the HDR class is often several letters worse than the SDR class.
- What it looks like on the label
- A second, smaller block marked HDR with its own class letter and a kWh/1000h figure, near the bottom of a TV or monitor label.
- Printed on
- TV or monitor
- Unit
- kWh per 1000 h, whole number; letter A–G
- Regulation
- Regulation (EU) 2019/2013, Annex III
What the regulation says
On a tv or monitor label
- What the number measures
- On-mode energy while playing HDR content, and its own A–G class.
- Unit
- kWh per 1000 h, whole number; letter A–G
- Test condition
- HDR version of the dynamic broadcast-content test loop; the display must switch to HDR mode automatically from the signal’s HDR metadata.
Regulation (EU) 2019/2013, Annex III, point 1 (VII) and (VIII): the on mode energy consumption in kWh per 1 000 h, when playing HDR content, rounded to the nearest integer;
Checked 2026-09-25.
Other icons on the tv or monitor label
Sources
- Regulation (EU) 2019/2013 — Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2013 of 11 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 with regard to energy labelling of electronic displays. Label content: Annex III. Article 11: “It shall apply from 1 March 2021.” Amended by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/340 (label sizes, test notes and verification tolerances); the label points quoted here are unchanged by it. Checked 2026-09-25.
Read in the Official Journal text on the date shown. Our drawing is not the official pictogram; the regulation’s own label figure is the authority.