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Sharp Finally Announces 3D
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 13, 2010  |  0 comments
Until now, Sharp has been content to let Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony hog the 3D spotlight. But Sharp's first 3D HDTVs will hit Japan this summer, with introductions in the U.S., Europe, and China to follow by December.
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Sharp in the Fourth Dimension
Thomas J. Norton  |  May 03, 2010  |  0 comments
Sharp recently announced the launch of its new Quattron LCD sets with LED edge lighting. All of them employ the company's new Quad Pixel technology, which adds dedicated yellow pixels to the red, green, and blue pixels present in all LCD displays. The added pixels are said to produce colors that ordinary LCD sets cannot.
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Sharp Launches Affordable DLP Projector
Barry Willis  |  Aug 25, 2002  |  0 comments

Home theater is increasingly a mainstream phenomenon, and no one recognizes this better than <A HREF="http://www.sharp-usa.com">Sharp Electronics</A>. During the last week of August, the manufacturing giant hosted its dealers and some members of the media at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines hotel/golf resort in a celebration of new products that included a DLP video projector with a suggested retail price right around $3000.

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Sharp Launches Hi-Def Plasma TVs
HT Staff  |  Jan 19, 2002  |  0 comments
Plasma screens are still one of the hottest commodities in the video marketplace. Sharp Electronics Corporation has added two new models to its new line of High Definition Plasma Televisions: the 43" PZ-43HV2U and the 50" PZ-50HV2U. The larger model was recently honored by an International CES Innovations 2002 Design and Engineering Showcase Award.
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Sharp LCD Basks in the Sun
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 10, 2008  |  0 comments
Now that energy savings are as prominent on consumer radar screens as flat-panel TVs, a set combining both concerns has become inevitable. This week, at a Japanese trade event, Sharp showed the first solar-powered LCD TV. Nope, no U.S. details yet.
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Sharp LCDs Beat Sony At Home
SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2008  |  0 comments
Sony may be the No. 1 seller of LCD TVs around the world, but Sharp is tops in Japan, according to a survey of retailers conducted by Japanese newspaper Nikkei Business Daily. The paper asked four retailers to forecast demand for LCDs around April...
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Sharp Marks 90th with New HT Products
HT Staff  |  Aug 22, 2002  |  0 comments
Sharp is celebrating its 90th anniversary with a wide array of new upscale home entertainment products, unveiled at a dealer conference and media event in late August at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines resort north of San Diego. Sharp's US sales division is also celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, making 2002 doubly important for the Japanese manufacturing giant.
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Sharp plays ball with Aquos MLB portal
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2009  |  0 comments
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Sharp Previews Ultra HD TV Lineup and Hi-Res Wireless Music Player
Thomas J. Norton  |  Nov 12, 2014  |  0 comments
Last Thursday Sharp Electronics introduced its latest Ultra HDTVs, along with a Wireless High Resolution Audio Player, at the Video & Audio Center in Santa Monica, CA.

The new AQUOS 4K UD27 lineup, available now, consists of two LCD models: the 70-inch LC-70UD27U ($3,600) and the 60-inch LC-60UD27U ($3,200)...

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Sharp Promises Wafer-thin PC/LCD Combination
Barry Willis  |  Feb 14, 1998  |  0 comments

Light-emitting polymers (LEPs) in Cambridge? In Tokyo, Sharp Electronics has developed a wafer-thin liquid crystal display (LCD) with computer circuitry built in. Sharp and its research partner, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory, announced in mid-January that they have devised a technology called continuous-grain silicon (CGS) that will allow LCDs to contain their own driver chips. This will permit the integration of displays and computers into sheets of any size, from credit-card-sized personal digital assistants to large-format video screens.

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Sharp Resurrects Elite TV Brand
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 04, 2011  |  12 comments
The Pioneer Elite TV brand is becoming Sharp Elite for a new line of LED-backlit LCD TVs. Sharp took the wraps off the first two models, 70 and 60 inches, today at a New York press event. At first glimpse they were dazzling.

Some background: The Pioneer Elite Kuro plasmas were widely regarded as among the best HDTVs ever made. They were a high-end, premium-priced product. But though they wowed critics, they didn't sell enough for the line to survive. Two years ago Pioneer exited the TV business, though it continues to use the Elite brand for its higher-end audio components. Earlier this year Pioneer licensed the Elite name to Sharp for use as a TV brand, a logical move given that Sharp is Pioneer's largest shareholder. And so the LCD phoenix rises from the plasma ashes.

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Sharp Sharing Hope This Holiday Season
SV Staff  |  Dec 09, 2008  |  0 comments
''Tis the season indeed! Have you seen this gorgeous display at NY's Grand Central Station? Get yourself quickly down to check out the AQUOS Experience, complete with a 26-foot tall tree created from 43 Sharp AQUOS LCD TV. To create...
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Sharp Shows Five-Color LCD
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 01, 2009  |  0 comments
Sharp has developed a new five-color LCD that, according to the company, "faithfully reproduces the real surface colors that humans are capable of perceiving."
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Sharp Slashes LCD TV Prices
HT Staff  |  Jun 08, 2004  |  First Published: Jun 09, 2004  |  0 comments
More manufacturers are entering the LCD TV fray, and Sharp Electronics is responding to the pressure with price drops for its leading Aquos line. The new prices could prove quite attractive for movie fans that have been looking for a sleek, lightweight flat panel.
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Sharp Supersizes LCD HDTV
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Oct 18, 2004  |  0 comments
Further dashing the hopes of all those who long for a return to the days when a really big big-screen TV occupied more space in your living room than a pair of side-by-side refrigerators (and just about as stylish), Sharp recently unveiled a prototype 65-inch diagonal LCD HDTV - giving them, for the moment, possession of the official "World's Largest LCD Color TV" plaque. Prior to Sharp's announcement, the people who get paid to pontificate on such things ("panel pundits") had proclaimed a probable production-size limitation in the mid-forty inches for LCD TV diagonals. (Stunned by seeing proof that such a large screen size was possible, many of these panel pundits quickly switched to politics or weather forecasting, neither of which require much accuracy or accountability.)
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