Sharp breaks records with first 80-inch LED LCD television
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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Well TV's are like the wife's/gf's that i have done BIGGER IS BETTER
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I'll get one when the price comes around $1K.
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May be we are heading towards living room wall made of LEDs :-)
Duh
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Unless its 4K ...
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Keep your couch close and your potatoes closer.
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amazingly large TV set..
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you,, watching tennis on my tv... lol
People Getting Dupped, Again.
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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