Did you know that Sony is looking to buy the LCD panels for its large TVsand information displays from the Osaka LCD plant two-thirds owned by Sharp?(Read: Business Week article: ?Sony and Sharp's LCD Linkup?, 27 February 2008).It Starts with the Most Advanced LCD Manufacturing Plant: Sincedeveloping the world's first 14-inch color TFT LCD TV in 1988, Sharp hasconsistently led the industry leading edge LCD technology. Today Sharp?sKameyama, Japan manufacturing facility is the most advanced LCD panel manufacturingfacility in the world. The plant uses 8th ?generation technology to produceglass substrates for LCD panels. The new Osaka plant, to be operational by2010, will use 10th ?generation technology to produce the world's largest LCDpanel sheets, measuring 2.8 meters by 3 meters in size where each sheet canproduce six 60-inch sets or three 108-inch sets. The LCD panel produced withthis technology will be the thinnest and lightest than any LCD panel producedto date.

The Highest Resolution and Industry Leading Picture Quality: TheSharp's LCD Information Display, with full high definition 1920 x 1080 nativeresolutions and with flicker-free, full color (16.7 million) TFT active matrixLCDs, delivers dynamic visual impact to audiences with true life colorreproduction and crisp text image on a large screen format. Sharp's monitorsoffer extensive color adjustment capabilities including black level(brightness), contrast tint, white balance (RGB manual setting) and gammavalue. The LCD technology achieves high brightness, high contrast ratio andwide 176 degree viewing angle for large format displays with response times of6ms or less. And these monitors come with anti-glare and low-reflectionproperties enabling Sharp monitors to be placed in bright areas where otherscreens might appear washed out. These full high definition displays are a mustfor a variety of applications like Conference Room LCD White Boards, DigitalSignage, Exhibitions, Education, CAD/CAM Designing, Medical Imaging,Simulation, Process Control, and Stock Exchanges applications. It is alsofinding increasing use in Video-conferencing to deliver true to life imagesalong with the Dolby 5.1 channel sound.

New Features and Sizes that will WOW! You: Sharp's monitors can beoperated in landscape or portrait modes. Very few competitors provide thisfeature for large monitors. A Black TFT/Bright Pixel Elimination featureensures that if a pixel in the LCD monitor fails, it is effectively invisibleto the viewer. And Sharp's 108? LCD monitors are the world's largestcommercially available LCD monitors. In addition to leading the movement towardlarger screen sizes, Sharp has met the demand for superior image quality byachieving such ?firsts? as a resolution that is four times higher than that ofcurrent HD (4096x2160), the world's highest contrast ratio (1,000,000:1) andthe ultimate in fast-motion image processing with 120Hz frame rate conversionand an incredible pixel response time of 4ms.

Operational Efficiency and Reliability that Saves Money: Large screendisplay customers are experiencing lower operational costs, increasedefficiencies and high reliability with Sharp LCD monitors. Sharp closed-boxfan-less design protects the screens from dust to maintain the life of thescreen

For more information on Sharp's LCD monitors, check out Sharp's official LCDmonitor site!