Sharp launches a line of LCD HDTVs
SHARP WILL ROLL OUT new Aquos LCD HDTVs featuring LED backlighting at comparatively more affordable prices than rivals Sony and Samsung.
The Aquos models will all be available this month and prices will range from about $1,100 for the 32-inch LC-32LE700UN to $2,800 for the 52-inch LC-52LE700UN. All models will support 1080p HD.
Other models available will be the 40-inch LC-40LE700UN at $1,700 and the 46-inch LC-46LE700UN for $2,200.
Although these prices can hardly be called cheap, a 32-inch backlit HDTV for close to a grand is not to be sniffed at.
However, Sharp's new HDTV line will not have local dimming implemented, a bummer for nitpicking A/V heads who don't want certain backlights turned on constantly when they're simply not needed. Gizmodo has had word from Sharp that local dimming will appear on later models.
In a statement, Sharp also boasted of the line's built-in Aquos Net, which allows users to hop straight onto customised web-based content and get in touch with real-time customer support. Users will be able to check stock quotes, the weather, and witter away their lives on classic games like blackjack and Sudoku.
Sharp's pretty pleased about the efficiency of its LE700 series too, with the 52-inch model supposedly drawing only 105W, about 68 per cent below the Energy Star 3.0 guidelines. µ
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It's not just to create better contrast it also cuts the energy needed for the back-light in half. (for normal video)
If it doesn't have local dimming who gives a toss whether it used LED's or kryptonite? The main point with the LED backlingting IS the local dimming!
This is just being done to confuse people.
2800.00 for a 52" LCD? What a total rip. I have an awesome 56" LED based DLP tv from Samsung that rivals or betters any LCD TV out there that I got for 1500.00. Samsung and now Mits have discontinued DLP tv's siting their low-profitability and the fact that everyone wants a thin LCD. Most LCD owners don't even mount them on the wall. My Dlp is almost as thin as an lcd, but you can't mount it. So what! It's cheaper and looks just as good. Now their trying to tell us what a good deal 2800 hundred dollars is for a 52" tv. BOLLOCKS!
mOST ARE NOT THAT EXPENSIVE LIKE lcos, CHEAPOS, SAME WORD. 720p, OUT OF DATE. HERES REFURB 1080p THATS LOW INPRICE & TAKES EVRYTHING FROM 400X600 TO ABOVE 1080p:
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vondrashek
The Sharp Aquos brand prices here in Canada were getting lower and we were poised to purchase one because of this, however with this new information we are going to review our stand on this choice.
I agree with Chris and Vondrashek/Pixie Creepy.
I noticed this from the tech industry, they are just wanting to KEEP some items above a 1,000 dollars from Computers and LCD Tv's. There are no reasons for this. It's unjustified, totally! Just thinking who would pay for an item the price above cheap city transportation [bus transit pass for a year]?!
Remember the Commodore 64? I do! As having it's price start at over $800.00 [Can] then just a few years later $199.00 [Can] [just for the computer].
Point is the Commodore 64 kept improving [on a standard] while the prices kept going down, not the case today, it's up down up down trying to fool the poor sap that comes along on the wrong price day! And it's always "Oh yes sir, you can do this with this machine, but that other machine..."
Short: "I am finished buying computers that are above $1,000.00
As for the LCD tv purchase, it's also up in the air since our Cable/TV industry is constantly spewing out metaphoric children crying when their ice cream fell on the ground scenarios plus the trashy programming content, not very appealing more appalling! An equivalence test of walking the dog! Honest, I leave it up to you to imagine the details.