Your next Sony LCD TV may actually be a Sharp

If you'll recall, Samsung announced plans last November to expand an 8G LCD plant sans Sony -- now, Reuters is reporting that Sony is aiming to start procuring LCD TV panels from Sharp, possibly within the next business year. Apparently, the deal with Sharp would allow it to "secure enough panels to meet fast-growing LCD TV demand without heavy capital investments," and considering that Sharp is already planning to construct the world's largest LCD factory by 2010, we'd say this works out quite nicely for it, too. Needless to say, the global demand for all things LCD seems to be going nowhere but up, but here's to hoping those prices continue to head in the opposite direction for the consumers' sake.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 23rd 2008 2:07PM]

They were using Samsung panels and now they will be using Sharp panels? No offense to Sharp fans out there, but I own both Samsung 65F and Sharp D64 televisions (calibrated) and there is no comparison: the Samsung picture is much nicer.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 23rd 2008 2:40PM]

does this mean that sony products will turn to poo ?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 23rd 2008 2:48PM]

not suprising, every psp ever made has a sharp screen in it.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 23rd 2008 3:38PM]

funny... all of the people i know with psp's have multiple dead pixels....

i've never seen a DS with a dead pixel... i guess some panels are more susceptible

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 23rd 2008 3:55PM]

i have 3 psp's. one had a dead pixel for about a week then it went away. honestly i havn't heared anyone complain about that sence about summer 05.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 23rd 2008 5:31PM]

thats why i buy a projector for my hdtv!

[spin cycle Posted Feb 23rd 2008 6:08PM]

This would be fine. Sharp makes great panels. But their TVs as a whole aren't necessarily as good.

Their large affordable backlights (91U/82U/92U series) are splotchy ($8000 65" model looks great). Their software on their TVs is just okay, with rudimentary UI.

Getting a Sharp panel with Sony backlight and UI sounds like a dream combination to me.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 24th 2008 12:15AM]

Hopefully, this is only the mass produced tvs that they would be doing this for. Mass produced being the ones that they send out to Wal-Mart and Target.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 24th 2008 3:01AM]

They make good panels, they're not very good at every other part of the process. Their software, processor, design...and so on is sub-par. Consequently these are all the things Sony's quite good at so if they can get panels for a better price and offer differentiate themselves from the competition a bit more in the process they may edge out Samsung on a regular basis.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 25th 2008 11:01AM]

Is Sony ever going to make plasmas?

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2008 6:39PM]

Not after they stated that the were going to focus specifically on LCD and OLED.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/012506-lcd.html