putting a switch on the plugs in my house?

[MTBikerTim]

That really depends on the TV. Some of the older tv's with standby really did suck the power (some of the not so old ones as well). The new ones will suck almost nothing in standby mode.

BrianG It's hard to believe but I have seen a demonstration with 2 Plasma displays where they were both running and drawing a similar amount of power. They were both Soft powered off and one panel dropped to a ridiculously small amount of power consumption as expected the other though dropped to about 70% of it's old consumption. It was amazing. Both plasmas were from the same company (no bias there) and just 6 months between models.