+1. This sounds like a legislation that someone without the required technical background drafted. Streaming SD vs HD vs 4k will have a negligible power consump

+1. This sounds like a legislation that someone without the required technical background drafted. Streaming SD vs HD vs 4k will have a negligible power consumption on the consumer, since it's all decoded in hardware. It will at max be a 10W difference - which is less than a classic lightbulb from which there are certainly still a lot in Swiss homes. On the server side it's even less - CDN servers serve so many users that CPU load is very amortized (I've worked on CDNs before and have the necessary background). The biggest bottleneck for serving higher quality streams is usually available bandwidth on the customers internet connections and backbone links - but neither seems to be a bottleneck for their concerns. Blue-ray players is the same story. These now used optimized SoCs to decode content, and are therefore energy efficient. Just looking up an example test of a player, a Sony UBP-X700 seems to require 6W. That's about 10k times less than an EV - which means you can watch 7 full days of Blu Rays instead of driving a car 1 minute based on the player power consumption alone. The added TV will make it more like 1 day, but it still shows they are looking at the wrong things.