Liquid Dreams: 65 inches of high definition nirvana

Sharp LC-65D90U HDTV

Pros: Allows you to have bragging rights with the largest available LCD television (in the Philippines).

Cons: This HDTV's massive screen clutches a tantamount huge price.

Every electronics manufacturer these days seemed to have taken to heart the mantra, bigger, faster, and stronger. For LCD television manufacturers, the quest is for larger and crisper screens.

For now, Sharp may have been on the front of the flat panel race, with the introduction of the world’s largest available LCD television – the Sharp Aquos LC-65D90U – with 65 inches of high definition performance.

Utilizing a full spec HDTV 1080p resolution, the Aquos comes with true 16:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, delivering rich, cinema quality images regardless of room brightness and the source of HD signals. Sharp also added a slew of technological innovations to ensure maximum performance, including a four-wavelength backlight adds a deep crimson red to conventional RGB wavelengths, thus giving the picture a deeper and more accurate hue of red. The interlaced to progressive conversion technology ensures detailed HDTV images and smooth pictures

The high quality noise reduction ensures that the pictures are spared of the dreaded “mosquitoes’ that mar the quality of viewing. Active contrast technology resulted to a contrast ratio of up to 4000:1, resulting whiter whites and blacker blacks. The Quick-Shoot technology gave the Aquos a 12ms response time, making images free from blurs and ensuring a clear, crisp playback. Viewing is also undistorted, thanks to the radial arrangement of the liquid crystal molecules, allowing viewing angles of up to 170 degrees in all directions.

Additional touches. Sharp also included some other features that complemented the Aquos well, like the stainless speakers with extra-large aperture grills that deliver clear, natural audio. The Aquos can also be set up in any home theater rig easily, as it can be connected to DVD, VHS, satellite, and to high definition sources through DVI, HD component and HDMI inputs.

In a nutshell, aside from being the largest available LCD television (which is a bragging right on its own), the Aquos is a full-featured and excellently designed television that screams “cutting edge.”

Price: About Php1 million as of May 15, 2006 ($1=Php52)