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Sharp breaks records with first 80-inch LED LCD television

By | September 27, 2011, 10:19am PDT

Summary: Sharp’s new Aquos television is the world’s first 80-inch LCD LED display.

Just when you thought that LED televisions couldn’t get any bigger, they do.

Sharp unveiled today the Aquos LC-80LE632U, an 80-inch behemoth of a display that somehow manages to make Sharp’s previously-announced 70-inch Aquos display look small in comparison.

The press shot above doesn’t do the television justice. Sharp says that its new display offers over two times the screen area of a 55-inch television, which seems impossible until you see in person just how big the new display actually is.

As for price, the 80-inch display is a predictably steep $5,499. You can pick one up this October, though considering that its 131 pounds, you may want to bring a friend or two.

Update: The press shot below gives a good idea of the display’s scale.

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Ricardo Bilton writes for ZDNet's The ToyBox. His work has appeared in The Japan Times, The New York Observer, and The International Business Times, among other publications.

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Ricardo Bilton writes for ZDNet's The ToyBox. His work has appeared in The Japan Times, The New York Observer, and The International Business Times, among other publications. He lives in New York, and is a graduate of Amherst College.

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ddfwekrwe16-24379070295484188662196292224973 23rd Nov
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Okay, do we really need an 80" TV? This is bordering on insane for most households.
@Peter Perry Interestingly http://adf.ly/2tGXK
@Peter Perry

Well TV's are like the wife's/gf's that i have done BIGGER IS BETTER
@Peter Perry
I'll get one when the price comes around $1K.
@Peter Perry
May be we are heading towards living room wall made of LEDs happy
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Duh
m0o0o0o0o 28th Sep
@Peter Perry: You, sir, obviously do not have a four-person squad playing BlackOps, or Halo, or the Battlefield3 Beta. I have an Aquos 52" and no, it is not anywhere NEAR big enough.
@Peter Perry We don't even need 32" TVs technically but we love them. Not sure I would want to use an 80" TV for everyday viewing but for movies and some shows I really do enjoy my projector shot on a 106" screen happy
Interestingly http://adf.ly/2tGXK happy
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Unless its 4K ...
johnfenjackson@... 27th Sep
... I'm just going to move the couch and my potatoes closer wink
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Keep your couch close and your potatoes closer.
Just get a Mitsibushi 73" WD-73640 DLP for $1600 from Amazon!. happy
@Grayson Peddie It's painfully clear that you've never come remotely close to a current gen LED. As enticing as the DLP projector tech was six years ago, there is a reason that Mits is the only manufacturer to still produce these units -- (a little) bang for the buck. Sitting side-by-side against any LED or plasma flat panel, the Mits picture quality looks like something that came free in a cereal box. Please, get real.
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amazingly large TV set..
opcom 28th Sep
Soon the old 100" video projector can be retired with things like that coming. I got to wonder what the manufacturing yield is on those panels though? And the resolution? At some point do we see the pixels?
DR,, How did you hurt your neck?
you,, watching tennis on my tv... lol
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People Getting Dupped, Again.
PieceofPaper51@... 29th Sep
I Love It!!!
When the LED TV came out, The LCD TV People knew they were in trouble, and would be in the next 10-15 years ... So they come up with a simple twist of the words in their advertising.
How do they get the people who want a LED TV on a LCD budget?
Slight trickery ... even though the wording in the AD is true, there is still a slight falseness to it too.
The LED TV is hundreds of thousands of LED pixels that are the display. LED's give off the light you see in the picture.
LCD TV needs a back lighting, normally a florescence type light, so you can see the LCD pixels.
The LED LCD TV is still a LCD TV, but the back lighting (so you can see the LCD pixels) is LED light. Hince it is a LED LCD TV. Or a LCD LED TV.
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