CES: Sharp goes big with 80-Inch 3D LED TV

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 01:36 PM

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 02:07 PM

Time to dispense with the "inches" measurement and go with feet--this would be a 6.7-foot (diag) TV. Yikes!

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 02:30 PM

As the TVs enlarge, so do the pixels.
Advantage? Fedex.

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 02:41 PM

I am one of the consumers who prefer paying for bigger screen vs. paying for 3D bells and whistles.

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 03:16 PM

I hope living rooms are getting bigger. Bigger is better to the less intelligent. Ill pay a little more for a better design or even a custom display to a fit a certain room but not just because its bigger.

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 04:22 PM

They have last year's 70" 120 Hz model on sale at Costco for under $2,500 now.

I use a 47" model to show my customers the work we are doing. It saves a lot of time. A larger model would make things even a little better. I'm not sure how much the resolution needs to be raised. We just need higher resolution to show more information. Then these screens can be better for genera use.

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 05:15 PM

Sharp goes big with an 80" gimmick that your friends can laugh at in 5 years because 3D TV will be deader than a doornail.

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 06:34 PM

Photonerd, on 09 January 2012 - 05:15 PM, said:

Sharp goes big with an 80" gimmick that your friends can laugh at in 5 years because 3D TV will be deader than a doornail.

Believe it or not, it'll still be a working 80 in. HDTV in 5 years too.

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Posted 10 January 2012 - 12:20 AM

j1h15233, on 09 January 2012 - 06:34 PM, said:

Photonerd, on 09 January 2012 - 05:15 PM, said:

Sharp goes big with an 80" gimmick that your friends can laugh at in 5 years because 3D TV will be deader than a doornail.

Believe it or not, it'll still be a working 80 in. HDTV in 5 years too.

Awesome burn. Guess he doesn't know that 3D TVs also display images in 2D as well.

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 07:55 PM

I'm not that impressed with current 3D technology. I took my son to see Star Wars I in 3D and the effects were very subtle at best. Some 3D movies give me a headache after 30 minutes to an hour. When 3D TV technology resembles Star Trek: The Next Generation's holodeck, count me in! I just hope Best Buy will have 0% financing for life when the technology arrives at the stores.

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