Sharp Rolls Out World’s Thinnest LCD TVs January 24, 2008

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Now that people have gotten over the novelty of how big HDTVs can get, manufacturers are waging a new war about who can make the skinniest.

Sharp is claiming that its new X Series AQUOS LCD TVs in 46in, 42in, and 37in flavours are the thinnest out there, with a waistline of just 3.44cm thick. That’s at the thinnest part, of course, but it’s still thin. Samsung however showed an LCD TV recently with a ridiculously thin 1cm waistline but since it’s not in production, Sharp gets to keep the Size Zero crown. For now.

The really clever bit about these TVs though is the use of a removable tuner section which can stored elsewhere and connected to the display with one cable. This means you don’t have to fiddle around the back of the telly trying to install cables.

The TVs are all Full HD, boast a high contrast ratio of 15,000:1 and use 12-bit BDE (Bit Depth Expansion) colour value rendering for brighter colours. They sport three HDMI inputs each, have 120Hz image processing for smoother fast image processing and house a 3-way, 8-speaker system.

They launch in Japan first in March.-Martin Lynch

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