This past year we’ve seen a lot of advances in the world of flat panel TVs. We’ve seen TVs become thinner, we’ve seen motion blur reduced thanks to the introduction of 240hz, we even saw wireless HD make an appearance in the marketplace. 2009 wasn’t a bad year. Sharp is now taking the next step, improving the number of actual colours you see on your set.
This spring Sharp will introduce what it calls “Quad Pixel Technology”. Instead of using the traditional Red, Blue, and Green colour pixels, Sharp is adding a fourth yellow pixel to the 2010 line of AQUOS LED TVs. The results? A larger selection of colours. Sharp claims traditional RBG sets can produce around 3 billion colours, a RBGY set…3 trillion.
I got the chance to see the new Quad Pixel Technology in action at CES earlier this month and I have to say the colours were indeed much more vibrant. Yellows really popped and even hues of blue looked much more vibrant. Sharp had one of its last year LED models next to the new Quad Pixel sets and the difference was quite impressive.
Of course this was all done in the comfort of Sharp’s CES booth. The real test will be when it hits the market. Expect to see the new Quad Pixel TVs in Canadian stores this spring. 40 inch to 68 inch sets will begin in the $2,000 CDN range.