Sharp Limited Edition 65-inch Aquos XS series

Right now, you can purchase a brand new high definition LCD TV for about $5000. A lot of people would even say that that price is too much. With the current economic situation, a lot of people would want more value for their money. So how can you sell a television that is priced more than three times of the average television price?

Well, apparently, Sharp can with their Limited Edition 65-inch Aquos XS series with a whopping $18,000 price tag. Whether its worth the fortune, its really up to you if you want to try it. But if you have some extra cash, then it might be good to know that the Aquos XS delivers an outstanding picture. It’s a good choice for people who have their hearts set on liquid-crystal display (LCD) technology, and money to spare. But, it does uffers from design quirks that may leave some TV buyers hankering for a more affordable set.

The Aquos XS is one of Sharp’s new LCD innovations that utilizes new lighting technology called light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. They have three major benefits over the fluorescent-tube LCDs that are more common today. Unlike fluorescent tubes, LEDs allow greater flexibility over which parts of a TV are lit to deliver a picture. That helps them deliver much better black levels and detail. Because there’s less leakage of light from always-on bulbs, you can view the picture better from off-angles. LED screens are also more energy-efficient and should last longer than tube lighting.

But that’s not all, Sharp also took LED technology to the next level by using a combination of red, blue, and green diodes, enabling the set to deliver more color combinations than white LEDs found in sets from Samsung and others, and as much as 150% of the colors represented in the official broadcasting color gamut.

As a result, detail you might miss in other sets, particularly LCDs, jumps off the screen of the Aquos XS. The Aquos XS also uses 120 Hz technology that aims to reduce motion blur in fast-action scenes by doubling the typical screen refresh rate.

As mentioned, the only thing missing is its design form. Sharp opted for a brushed-steel front bezel but had to make several trade-offs to deliver an overall frame that measures a little over an inch thick. The biggest problem however, was with the touch controls that hang down from the front-center of the screen, giving the TV a buck-toothed appearance.

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