Tag: Sharp
Walt Disney and Sharp unveil DMS002SH Cinderella mobile phone
Sharp, in conjunction with Walt Disney, has introduced the DMS002SH Cinderella mobile phone – a shiny clamshell with a fairly average specification…
Sharp rolling out 22 AQUOS LCD TVs, because you can never have too many tellies
Sadly, Sharp isn’t releasing this truckload of AQUOS LCD TVs in Europe yet, but the Japanese obviously like choice when it comes to tellies (or Sharp thinks they do), because TWENTY-TWO models are being released in June.
The AQUOS R series (pictured) will come in 65, 52, and 46 inch screen sizes, in black or brown finish (brown… nice), 1080p, with 20,000:1 contrast ratio and 120Hz refresh rate, three HDMI ports, and just 5cm thick…
Sharp intros AQUOS Blu-ray DVRs with up to 1TB of storage
Sharp is to launch three new AQUOS combo units in Japan, featuring a Blu-ray player and Digital Video Recorder plus digital and analogue TV tuners.
Available with three hard drive sizes — 250GB, 500GB, or 1TB — they record to the hard drive in the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format in any of three different bitrates (4.8, 8, and 12Mbps), so users can choose what quality to record at and, consequently, how much content can be stored…
Sharp launching B20 and X8 Series AQUOS LCD TVs
Sharp has announced three new high definition LCD TVs in its AQUOS range.
The B20 AQUOS Series comes in two screen sizes — 37 and 42 inches — and features black frame, thin design (94.6mm at thinnest part), 10,000:1 contrast ratio, 6ms response time, SRS TruSound and XT Sound, three HDMI inputs, and an integrated Freeview tuner…
Sharp introduces HT-DV50H home cinema system
Sharp has just launched its HT-DV50H home cinema system with high power RMS 250W speakers (75W per channel) and a 100W subwoofer…
Sharp makes the electronic dictionary interesting with the RD-CX310
Sharp continues to knock out electronic dictionaries in the far east, but these days, they’re actually quite interesting – including the RD-CX310…
Sharp and Willcom introduce D4 UMPC
Sharp and Willcom still have faith in the UMPC format, unveiling the D4 in Japan…
Sharp launches AQUOS D44E series of HD-ready TVs
More HD-ready TVs on the market, this time from Sharp, which has launched its AQUOS D44E series.
Sharp introduces PC-CW60X and PC-CW50X notebooks
I can’t make my mind up if the newly-launched Sharp PC-CW60X and PC-CW50X notebooks look like fat MacBooks or oversized EEe PCs. Probably both…
Now you can buy a hi-def player: the five best Blu-ray players
It’s been building up to a crescendo, with Toshiba’s announcement expected sometime this week that they are indeed pulling their support of the HD DVD format. At least the conclusion to this bloody battle will result in all of you finally being able to splurge your retirement money on a hi-def player, or upgrade your tired multi-format to one of these Blu-ray players.
So, in no particular order, here’s the top five best Blu-ray players, as voted by Tech Digest and HDTV-UK.
1.) Panasonic DMP-BD30 – this baby offers full 1080p playback, Final Standard Profile functionality, picture-in-picture, audio mixing, Panasonic’s P4HD technology, 1080/24 playback, HDMI 1.3B, Deep Colour compatibility, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD audio decoding, SD memory card slot, AVCHD codec, and EZ-Sync. £349, or $499.95, out now…
