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Old 07-13-2009, 04:54 PM
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All Sharp Televisions Will Be LED backlit by 2011

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Old 07-13-2009, 05:09 PM
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Great news. I'm sure the other mfg's will follow.
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Old 07-13-2009, 05:13 PM
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Clearly Sharp isn't as sharp with LED. Samsung already has a line of full LED HDTVs.
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Old 07-13-2009, 06:07 PM
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Clearly Sharp isn't as sharp with LED. Samsung already has a line of full LED HDTVs.
There's LED edgelighting, LED backlighting, and LED backlighting with local dimming. Samsung and Sony can keep their LCD's with LED edgelighting, as far as I'm concerned. I want better picture quality, not just ultra-thinness. IMO, HDTV's are for watching HD content on them, not for staring at them from the side, admiring how thin they are. All current flat panels are plenty thin enough.

I guess we'll have to wait and see how Sharp approaches LED. I hope it foregoes the style over substance approach that Samsung has taken.
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Old 07-13-2009, 06:18 PM
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There's LED edgelighting, LED backlighting, and LED backlighting with local dimming. Samsung and Sony can keep their LCD's with LED edgelighting, as far as I'm concerned. I want better picture quality, not just ultra-thinness. IMO, HDTV's are for watching HD content on them, not for staring at them from the side, admiring how thin they are. All current flat panels are plenty thin enough.

I guess we'll have to wait and see how Sharp approaches LED. I hope it foregoes the style over substance approach that Samsung has taken.
Samsung and Sony have already released a line of backlit LED LCDs. The Samsung A950 and Sony XBR8 series are probably the highest quality LCD TV's you can get right now, although I believe Samsung has discontinued the A950 series (look for the next Samsung LED-backlit TV sometime this fall).

I'm seriously considering getting the 46XBR8.
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Old 07-13-2009, 06:27 PM
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The article doesn't say if the LED's will be white or RGB.
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Old 07-13-2009, 09:15 PM
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LED projectors are the only thing I'm remotely interested in...
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Old 07-13-2009, 10:51 PM
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It's so funny to see these manufacturers continue to try and cram all of this technology for a more "plasma-like" picture. 120hz, 240hz, LED...Consumers also must pay for that extra technology that will still never be as good as a plasma display...my signature says it all.
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Old 07-13-2009, 11:23 PM
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As others have noted, LED backlighting has many flavors.

Without the local dimming though, LED backlighting doesn't do much more than cut down on power consumption and slightly boost the contrast. While the LED LCDs with local dimming can approach plasma performance with motion resolution and contrast, those sets also cost nearly twice as much as similar sized plasmas. And reviews for the A950 and XBR8 have noted that they have a very narrow viewing angle, speculating that the LED backlighting is responsible. The local dimming feature also has the side effect of blurring out low level details. For example, Displaymate's recent HDTV comparison found that Samsung's local dimming wound up turning a starfield image from 2001 completely black.

LCD TVs have had to make do with a bunch of technical band-aids that seem to solve one problem, while creating new ones.

By 2010, many of the major manufacturers will have come out with their first large format OLED TVs. I would hope that's the magic bullet that finally resolves all the compromises that LCD and plasma make. For now, I'll just hope that my plasma lasts long enough for OLED TVs to reach affordable levels.
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Old 07-14-2009, 12:27 AM
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This makes me want to suck it up with my current tv for a while longer.
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The Samsung A950 and Sony XBR8 series are probably the highest quality LCD TV's you can get right now,
Or they are best reasonably priced LCD TV's.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/tvs/re...-LED-LCD-TV/p1
Sharp is doing its homework.
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Old 07-14-2009, 04:29 PM
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The development of high-brightness LED are more compact LEDs. These will render capable of edge-illuminated backlight methods for large area LCD TVs. Also very fewer LEDs are required for edge illuminated backlights and they are the real competitors for cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL).
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