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Sharp unveils cinema-killer; 108 inch LCD HDTV E-mail
by Adam Turner   
Tuesday, 09 January 2007

It's official; we're gonna need a bigger lounge room.

 

Sharp has unveiled the mother of all LCD televisions at CES in Las Vegas - a prototype 108 inch high definition display.

Manufactured at Sharp’s Kameyama Plant No. 2 - the first plant in the world to use eighth generation glass substrates - it's the world's largest LCD - beating Panasonic's show stopper at last year's CES by five inches. Sharp Electronics chairman and CEO Toshihiko Fujimoto, speaking at CES, didn't pass on the opportunity to take a swipe at plasma either; "Clearly, LCD technology is now the undisputed flat-front television leader".

Forget home theatre, with a display this big you could set up a home drive-in. There's no word on pricing yet, although the price tag will certainly be equally mammoth.

Obviously this is just a "mine's bigger than yours" competition with other LCD and plasma panel makers. Realistically this television will never hit the retail shelves - at 7 foot 10 inches long many people would have to knock down a wall to get it into their home. Better yet, you could buy five, use one as roof and call it a house. There'd obviously be no door but, if you're surrounded by 172 square feet of high definition goodness, why would you ever leave?

A man can dream, can’t he?{moscomment}

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