if the off angle viewing is as good as it looks in the pic then they've got a good one. wonder how much it'll cost for the 52" and how it'll stack up against the xbr8 and the XV1-the world's slimmest LCD with LED BL.
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hot dang. this sharp looks er....sharp?
if the off angle viewing is as good as it looks in the pic then they've got a good one. wonder how much it'll cost for the 52" and how it'll stack up against the xbr8 and the XV1-the world's slimmest LCD with LED BL.
It could be some sort of dithering to 12-bit effective range with 10-bit drivers, or maybe it could be 12-bit drivers. Or, it could be all hot air. We won't know until they start shipping and people get them in hand.
They are referring to total backlight control not local dimming. They are touting a function which is similar to what they do with the current Aquos lines, with the backlight dimming according to the ambient light levels. If the room is bright the backlight is full on, if the room is dark you don't need to punch the picture through the ambient light, so the backlight dims.
It would be awesome if this was priced vagely reasonably (55" is just barely enough for me), but I fear they might have a drink of the silly juice before they set pricing.
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Interestingly, the press release seems to tout the local-dimming as a form of
power efficiency feature instead of black-level improvement.
There's going to be bugs in their first commercial implementation of it, so touting it as a purely picture quality improving feature is probably something they've made a corperate decision not to do. How well their LEDs are done compared to Samsung/Sony/LG/Philips remains to be seen.
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Seems Sony/Samsung have roared past them in recent years. Seems
If it is actually edge lit, then it's highly unlikely to have area based dimming. It'd be a shame if it was, there's a significant performance hit compared to rear lit lighting.
Considering BT.709 only covers about 40% of the visible spectrum, sure. However, if you plan on calibrating the set to the HDTV standards and not just cranking things up as far as they'll go then the extra gamut is not necessary whatsoever. Once we start getting some xvYCC material that will change, but that may be several years away.
I'm getting Oct 08 also. It's great that the LED LCD story doesn't end this year with XBR8 and there's still XS to look forward to later on. BUT, regardless of the specs Sharp is giving, it seems quite obvious this is not the stunning display that was shown at last year's IFA. Just compare the pictures and videos of the two. The prototype had almost OLED-like contrast from any angle while you can barely see what's on the XS' screen in the pictures taken from the side. XS looks like a regular LCD on every picture. Perhaps Sharp wants to dole out whatever improvements they've made in stages and it will be several years before they bring to market all of the prototype tech. Recall that the prototype was scheduled for release sometime in 2010.
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