From Calculators to Sharp LCD TV

Liquid crystal display televisions are now commonly available in the market with many of the major brands offering the same. LCD technology development started over 40 years ago and the roots of Sharp LCD TV can be traced to its calculators. Sharp was the first company to introduce hand held calculators with LCD screen with the wide use of three–inch TFT screens in many of their applications.  After years of mass production of color televisions, Sharp LCD TV units hit the market with the introduction of the model Aquos in 2001.

Most early LCD televisions were 21-inches and smaller due to technology constraints. Since each of the light emitting diodes used in LCD needed a separate circuit to turn it off and on to illuminate the picture, considerable space inside the housing of the flat panel screen was required to make the viewing screen larger. Considerable innovations in design and electronics, led to the introduction of the 65-inch Sharp LCD TV in 1965.

In the early years, prior to the development of the large screen sizes, most LCD TV manufacturers were content with their LCD offerings limited to lock on computer monitors, medical equipment monitors and handheld devices as well as video and digital cameras. But the ever increasing popularity of large-screen plasma flat panel encouraged the Sharp LCD TV department to innovate and continue development of enlarged screens.

LCD technology is not necessarily HD.

It’s a popular misconception that a television with flat panel screen and LCD or plasma technology is also essentially high definition. The brightness and clarity of a Sharp LCD TV may lead you to believe that it is high definition. However this is not true. If it has to be high def then it has to be electronically equipped. Otherwise it is just either enhanced definition or still analog.

The lightweight Sharp LCD TV with flat screen and its ability to stand on flat surface or be hung on the wall is one the features that makes it attractive. The flat screen feature also enables viewing at a wide angle, and this distinguishes them from most of the projection televisions where the clarity is reduced at as little 10 degrees from center. Most flat panel Sharp LCD TV screens offers a viewing angle of 170-dregrees, measured in tow directions, left and right.

The introduction of the 28-inch Sharp LCD TV in 1995, the largest LCD monitor at that time was a major event in the history of television. It set the trend for introduction of larger LCD televisions. The 65-inch LCD TV cheaper than plasma which evinced large consumer interest heralded a new era of large-screen television viewing.