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How Sharp Makes Its “Free-form” Displays

by Ken Werner

For some time, Sharp has been showing examples of its “free-form” displays, which do both the “row” and “column” driving through one edge of the display, leaving the rest of the display to be …

Tags:Free Form Displays| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Sharp’s CEO Survives Resignation Call

by Helen Vince

At the company’s AGM this week, Sharp’s CEO Kozo Takahashi survived a vote for his re-election, despite some shareholders calling for his resignation. An emotional Takahashi was quoted as saying that he wanted Sharp …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Sharp Begins In-Cell Mass Production

by Tom Allen

Sharp has begun to mass-produce in-cell touch displays for smartphones. They are being produced at Sharp’s Mie Plant No. 3, using LTPS technology. The company is considering expanding production to its Kameyama Plant No. …

Tags:Japan| Mobile Display Monitor| Production| sharp| Smartphones| Supply Chain| Touch Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 25

Sharp Promotes Quality and Touch Performance

by Bob Raikes

Sharp stared by showing us how its PN-V551 ultranarrow bezel monitor has compensation for brightness uniformity, a technique it calls UCCT (Uniform Colour Consistency Technology). We reported on this Sharp Explains B2B Display Push …

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Sharp Highlights Free Form Concepts

by Bob Raikes

We were impressed with the Sharp Free Form displays that we saw at CES, but we were unable to get much more information, so we were pleased to catch up with the company at …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| LFD - Large Format Display| Memory LCD| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Sharp Shows Aquos 4K Line to the New York Press

by Ken Werner

Yesterday (June 10) at a Lower West Side exhibit space in New York, Sharp showed media people its line-up of Aquos UHD-TVs now hitting retailer’s floors and websites in the US. Sets were exhibited …

Tags:sharp| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 24

US Consumers Want More Resolution (BC8)

by Bob Raikes

Apparently the answer is “a lot”Jim Sanduski is President of Sharp Electronics in the US and he talked about the issues of profitability for the industry. He said that high resolution is a big …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| SID Display Week 2015| TV Set Market| UltraHD (4KTV)| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Sharp Frees Auto Makers from the Tyranny of Rectangles

by Bob Raikes

We were at Sharp where we spoke to Tom Spears, Director, Automotive Display Marketing, and he told us about two new technology developments that will allow auto designers to get away from using rectangular …

Tags:Automotive| Free Form Displays| LCD displays| sharp| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Espial Claims Sharp Win

by Tom Allen

Espial has said that its HTML5 Client software is being used in Sharp’s new XU30 LCD TVs (Sharp Converts Up and Down to Raise Quality), which will go on sale in Japan in July.

Tags:Back Panel| Japan| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Sharp Introduces New Line Of Commercial AQUOS™ LED Smart TVs

by Helen Vince

Sharp Imaging and Information Company of American (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), today announces its first series of AQUOS LED smart TVs specifically designed for B2B and commercial applications are now …

Tags:sharp| TVs (TV Sets)

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 24

by Tom Allen

HTC has announced its first smartphone with resolution beyond 1920 x 1080. Unfortunately, the HTC One ME currently appears to be exclusive to China. The handset has a 5.2″ display with 2560 x 1560 …

Tags:China| Fingerprint Recognition| Gaze Recognition| HTC| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| sharp| Smartphones| Sunlight Readable Displays| Tobii| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Sharp Looks to Auto LCDs to Boost Business

by Helen Vince

There has been further speculation about Sharp’s plans for restoring its LCD business, following the company’s announcement last month of its mid-term management plan (Sharp Secures Second Bank Bail-Out). Latest reports suggest that Sharp …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 22 - Issue 23