The 70" TV that I will be getting
Sep 27, 2011 | 11:04 PM
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For most applications, a proper local dimming LED backlit LCD TV is a much better tool for the job than a plasma. You don't have to worry about ambient lights, and you sure don't have to worry about leaving a Word document up for too long.
And speaking of misinformed, how about your claim that this TV is a mere relabel of a Sharp TV?
And speaking of misinformed, how about your claim that this TV is a mere relabel of a Sharp TV?
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Sep 27, 2011 | 11:43 PM
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Then the new Panny as well.
If you try to use your plasma at all as a computer screen, it can't. We use ours a lot for surfing and working, which includes Word document, black text in white background.
Sep 27, 2011 | 11:44 PM
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This is not a thread about plasma.
This is a thread about Pioneer custom local dimming LED improvement on the Sharp 70" gen 10 LCD glass from their Kameyama factory.
This is a thread about Pioneer custom local dimming LED improvement on the Sharp 70" gen 10 LCD glass from their Kameyama factory.
Sep 27, 2011 | 11:57 PM
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This is not a Pioneer TV. It is a Sharp TV. Sharp licensed the ELITE brand from Pioneer.
That said, Sharp has done an amazing job with the ELITE brand. This is not a rebadged TV, it is a completely unique product designed to the highest standards. The best TV Sharp has made, and probably the best LCD tv ever. I'm thinking of buying this tv soon too. Was waiting to see some user reviews.
That said, Sharp has done an amazing job with the ELITE brand. This is not a rebadged TV, it is a completely unique product designed to the highest standards. The best TV Sharp has made, and probably the best LCD tv ever. I'm thinking of buying this tv soon too. Was waiting to see some user reviews.
This is one of the best looking displays I have seen, ever. I plan on buying the 60" after the first of the year when I can get a deal.
Sep 28, 2011 | 12:04 AM
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Same with Sharp. This Elite is their first local dimming TV. And if you look at their roadmap they are going to extend local dimming to some Aquos TVs next year.
Just because they had no local dimming TVs earlier in the year doesn't mean they can't now.
This is Sharp's Lexus LFA moment and I can tell that some don't want to believe it.
Sep 28, 2011 | 01:33 AM
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I am also waiting until a deal can be had, probably like you said, after Christmas.
Sep 28, 2011 | 01:46 AM
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this argument is illogical. Samsung had no local dimming in any of their TVs until they launched the first one with local dimming.
Same with Sharp. This Elite is their first local dimming TV. And if you look at their roadmap they are going to extend local dimming to some Aquos TVs next year.
Just because they had no local dimming TVs earlier in the year doesn't mean they can't now.
This is Sharp's Lexus LFA moment and I can tell that some don't want to believe it.
Same with Sharp. This Elite is their first local dimming TV. And if you look at their roadmap they are going to extend local dimming to some Aquos TVs next year.
Just because they had no local dimming TVs earlier in the year doesn't mean they can't now.
This is Sharp's Lexus LFA moment and I can tell that some don't want to believe it.
It's not that I don't want to believe or what not, I never tought of Sharp as a cut rate brand. At one point they were the leader in LCD tech, until the SONY and SAMSUNG joint venture that produced the XBR8 and the 81F that totally knocked Sharp out.
The info I have about what was said by Sharp reps during the unveiling seemed to me that this is not really a Sharp TV, but that they took the Sharp glass and then put their own improvements on it.
Whatever it is, having seen it now a few times in person, I can say that there really is no reason to have plasma now that they resolved the blooming issue with the extra grids of LED elements.
Oct 1, 2011 | 10:32 PM
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I saw the 70. I didn't compare it to anything, but the Sharp brand name was nowhere to be found on the tv.
From what I have read (no sources remembered) the TV was brought about as Pioneer still employs the engineers that made the previous plasma units and they found that they could get certain LCDs to be leaps and bounds ahead of other present units. Sharp being able to produce certain tech was able to engineer the glass and Pioneer used their configuration wizardry to wave wands around and pound keys.
From what I have read (no sources remembered) the TV was brought about as Pioneer still employs the engineers that made the previous plasma units and they found that they could get certain LCDs to be leaps and bounds ahead of other present units. Sharp being able to produce certain tech was able to engineer the glass and Pioneer used their configuration wizardry to wave wands around and pound keys.