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    Hey Everybody, Take a Cue from Sharp

    Sharp Aquos LE700 LED TVs Go Mainstream, But Where's the Local Dimming?

    Sharp LCD TVs, Monitors May Be Banned From Import Into The US

    Sharp LCD TVs Come With a Free Blu-ray Player Until January 31

    26-Foot Tall Christmas Tree Made of 43 Sharp TVs

    Dealzmodo: 2 Sharp 46" AQUOS HDTVs for $1999

    Aquos Fulltouch: The Highest Resolution Cellphone of All Time

    Dealzmodo: Sharp AQUOS 32" 1080p LCD for $699 Shipped

    Sharp Aquos DX LCDs Come With Integrated Blu-Ray Recorders

    Sharp 42-Inch 1080p Aquos for $900... at Dell
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    07/07/09

    In reply to Sharp Aquos LE700 LED TVs Go Mainstream, But Where's the Local Dimming?
    Bullocks. Without a neutral gray background, you will not know what "good black levels" are. The wall is blue and beige. And the shadow of the set on the wall is a darker black without any depth.


    The only true LED set would have an LED for each pixel. And we won't see that in our living rooms for a long, long time...

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    Image of Turbostraw Turbostraw
    06/24/09

    In reply to Sharp LCD TVs, Monitors May Be Banned From Import Into The US
    I guess in these times of recession lawyers need to find new ways to sue people.


    I mean, how else will they finish paying their Cayennes otherwise?

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @Turbostraw: Most of the lawyers involved such cases are not US citizens typically. They're either Japanese, Chinese, or Taiwanese so that one can speak the native language of the people who built the fucking thing.


    If you're Japanese, do you want a white lawyer representing you, or do you want a Japanese lawyer representing you that speaks English, and Japanese, and understands cultural nuanced use of language natively so that he can request clarification of terms as they are translated into English for the court proceedings?

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    In reply to Sharp LCD TVs, Monitors May Be Banned From Import Into The US
    OK, here's the basics behind manufacturers screwing other manufacturers.


    Company A builds product.

    Company B reverse engineers product, copies it, sends their product to market while knowingly infringing upon Company A's patent/patents

    Company B then works to come up with a work-around the patent/s before Company A sues them.

    Company A sues them.

    Company A then requests that all products from Company B are banned from import during hearing.

    Company B's products are then either banned, or not banned temporarily.

    Company A then requests for all monies Company B made selling infringing products.

    Company will then usually get portion of Company B's sales.

    Company B releases work-around.

    Company B retires infringing product line in US.

    Company B is then cleared to continue now importing non infringing crap to US.


    Occasionally Company B gets thumped hard before it gets to this end point and is effectively shut out of the US market entirely until case is resolved and products are no longer infringing upon Company A's products.


    The short version as my former IP paralegal wife states it: Crooked Asian company sues other crooked Asian company in an attempt to corner market. The end.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @Six Demon Bag: Lite: And this is something that happens every day for imported goods.
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    Image of asnpcwiz asnpcwiz
    06/24/09

    @Six Demon Bag: Lite:


    Except in this case, Company A is Sharp...I'm pretty sure the were making LCD's waaaaay before Samsung.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @asnpcwiz: Who makes an LCD screen first has nothing to do with patents. You do realize that there is more than one way to build an LCD right? And that all the electronics contained within are not equal perhaps? And that maybe one company may invent something that increases the quality of their product that another company may wish to acquire so that their products are perceived as on par?


    Or, are you just some sort of flaming moron who throws out idiotic comments like the one you just posted above?

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    Image of marcus1060 marcus1060
    06/24/09

    In reply to Sharp LCD TVs, Monitors May Be Banned From Import Into The US
    I love my Sharp Aquos!
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/24/09

    @marcus1060:


    agreed. they're much better than Dull Infernus.

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    Image of yugoAK yugoAK
    06/24/09

    In reply to Sharp LCD TVs, Monitors May Be Banned From Import Into The US
    Is president Obama an expert on patent law? What does he have to do with this.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @yugoAK: President has authority over trade disputes. He has advisers to recommend a course of action to take. Same as when it comes to military action, reforming health care, or anything else he attempts to do. He gets advice from (allegedly) very smart people.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    06/24/09

    In reply to Sharp LCD TVs, Monitors May Be Banned From Import Into The US
    So does this mean I have to return the Sharp LCD I'm using as a monitor at home?
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave: Nope...
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/24/09

    @AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave: @Six Demon Bag: Lite: actually, yes it does. you have to give it to me. sorry, bud.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/24/09

    @Nick:


    that vizio waitin at home for ya?

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/24/09

    @Nick: You lie! I'll bet you will offer him cake in exchange.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    06/24/09

    @Six Demon Bag: Lite: I'll take death then.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/24/09

    @Six Demon Bag: Lite:


    but... the cake is a lie!

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    06/24/09

    @nutbastard: And my commenting skills, doubly so.
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    Image of DeepFriar DeepFriar
    12/19/08

    In reply to Sharp LCD TVs Come With a Free Blu-ray Player Until January 31
    Looks like Amazon is doing a similar deal, only carving $200 off the BD-HP50U
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    11/02/08

    In reply to Dealzmodo: 2 Sharp 46" AQUOS HDTVs for $1999
    in college we had 2 CRT TV's stacked on top of each other (living in a quad as a freshman sucked) and had 2 different things going simultaneously (HALO, cable tv, movie, etc)


    bad idea...

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    Image of Lou_Rosenthal Lou_Rosenthal
    10/30/08

    In reply to Aquos Fulltouch: The Highest Resolution Cellphone of All Time
    This is porn for geeks.
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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    10/30/08

    @Lou_Rosenthal: no, princess leia pleasuring herself with a lightsaber is porn for geeks. this is just awesomeness that will soon turn to indifference that will soon turn to disappointment.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/30/08

    @Anonymoose: I think that's porn for a different brand of geek, like...the kind that's way into violent hentai.
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    Image of aliskaba aliskaba
    10/30/08

    In reply to Aquos Fulltouch: The Highest Resolution Cellphone of All Time
    Obviously someone does have one, and it's a chick. Can someone do an imdb search on that finger, and then we can stalk her house, beat her up, and take her phone???
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/30/08

    @aliskaba: Her finger's shaped funny. I think she's the hand model that they use to do Apple's patent drawings.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    10/30/08

    In reply to Aquos Fulltouch: The Highest Resolution Cellphone of All Time
    I don't think it's a slideout qwerty keyboard - it's a slideout numeric keyboard in the pics.


    Touchscreen phones are great, but it's all about the OS. Crappy closed systems hold no allure.

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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    10/30/08

    @weatherman: *Yawn*. That sentence should be "Crappy closed systems hold no allure FOR ME." No one else cares about your Apple hate. lol.....Im loving my iPhone....Hope you like your phone just as much.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    10/30/08

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I'm sure I do


    But I agree, closed architecture phone OSs completely neuter the usefulness of the hardware...

    (while apparently only providing a marginal improvement in stability/user experience)

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    10/30/08

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I know the crappy closed system on my Samsung Glyde bites Moose privates.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    10/30/08

    @TheSonOfKrypton: well I said it, so you should infer that closed systems hold no allure for me. To say it would be redundant.


    Anyway, I wasn't talking about the iPhone. I am an iPhone user and I think it's the greatest thing since the original Palm OS. By crappy closed systems I meant the kinds we see on everything from Razrs to the LG Prada type phones. Those are truly closed systems. iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian.. those are all "open" systems to some extent. Obviously the iPhone is more closed than the others because apps require approval and must be downloaded though the iTunes store, but it's still an open platform ,technically speaking.

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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    10/30/08

    In reply to Aquos Fulltouch: The Highest Resolution Cellphone of All Time
    So, is this a Sharp product?
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    Image of DisposableInterloper DisposableInterloper
    10/30/08

    In reply to Aquos Fulltouch: The Highest Resolution Cellphone of All Time
    A lot like the iPhone? I'd say if the iPhone didn't exist, neither would this.


    Seriously, it's one thing to take interface and interaction cues from another device. That's fine. It's another to style the device and theme the UI such that you need to wonder if they even have an industrial designer onboard.

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    Image of OMG! Conies! OMG! Conies!
    10/30/08

    @DisposableInterloper: I'd say if the LG Prada didn't exist, neither would the iPhone.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/30/08

    @einstoch: Neither would the Newton, since Doc Brown is on the board of directors at LG.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/30/08

    In reply to Aquos Fulltouch: The Highest Resolution Cellphone of All Time
    At what point does it become apparent that higher resolution is completely pointless, especially on something this small?


    But why should we tempt you more over something you cannot buy?

    Because if you didn't, you guys would be lying about being in love with shiny new things. The point is to fawn over them, not necessarily to own :D

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