Sharp unveiled a 65-inch LCD television at the opening of the Ceatec 2004 exhibition this week. The company also said it will sell Aquos-brand TVs with LCD panels in size of 50 inches and larger in 2005.
The 65-inch model has a 6.22 million dot panel and is capable of displaying a full high-definition picture at 1920 pixels by 1080 pixels, according to Yasutaroh Tanno, a member of the Sharp’s LCD digital systems division. The company has hand-made only three prototype models so far and won’t say when a TV based on the panel will go on sale, he says. The models are made on the company’s sixth-generation LCD production line at Kameyama in central Japan. So-called sixth-generation production lines can handle mother glass–the initial glass sheet onto which the LCDs are built–as large as 59 inches by 71 inches. The facility, which Sharp claims is the most advanced of its kind in the world, opened earlier this year.
I sure could use one before the superbowl. -KF
Source: PC World
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