Sharp launching 65-inch LCD TV in August
Tags: HDTV, LCD, Plasma
This week seems to be flat panel TV story week. Thanks to Engadget for noticing, CNN has a report saying that Sharp will release a 65-inch LCD panel in August in Japan and throughout the world by the end of the year. The report notes that this is really a shot across the bow of plasma-makers, despite LCD's higher prices currently. Why? Because:
So not only will the Sharp panel support the possibility of upcoming 1080p HDTV programs, it will looked, well, sharper than the plasma at close viewing distances.
This week seems to be flat panel TV story week. Thanks to Engadget for noticing, CNN has a report saying that Sharp will release a 65-inch LCD panel in August in Japan and throughout the world by the end of the year. The report notes that this is really a shot across the bow of plasma-makers, despite LCD's higher prices currently. Why? Because:
Sharp said its 65-inch TV was better than similarly sized plasma sets because unlike plasma models it can produce an image with resolution of 1,920 horizontal by 1,080 vertical pixels.
Matsushita's 65-inch set, for example, produces 1,366 by 768 pixels of resolution.
So not only will the Sharp panel support the possibility of upcoming 1080p HDTV programs, it will looked, well, sharper than the plasma at close viewing distances.
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