Sharp PN-655U 65-inch LCD now available

As promised, Sharp's massive 65-inch PN-655U AQUOS LCD TV (or LC-TV, as Sharp likes to call them) is now available. In case you forgot, this set is full on 1080p, with a low 6ms response time, a 700:1 contrast ratio, and 170-degree viewing angle; as far as inputs go, Sharp only says that it has a "full compliment" for computer and video use. The price of this behemoth still doesn't appear to be readily available, but you know the drill: if you have to ask you can't afford it, especially since Sharp isn't really counting on wealthy home theater buffs to move these things, being that they've mostly got commercial and professional applications in mind.

[Via HD Beat]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 16th 2008 10:48PM]

I am having problems with 65in Panasonic plasma TV-we are concerned that it may be a overheating problem. The temp at the fans in the rear have reached 119 degrees. Comments on this and do LCD's get this hot?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 8th 2006 8:00AM]

700:1 CR? No one is going to get their motors going and out on the highway with such poor contrast performance. What is the target market? Resolution ans size is great, but I'd hate to try to watch LOTR on it or work with photo/video editing requiring critical black levels.

[wichenroder Posted Jun 8th 2006 8:34AM]

What kind of monster video card would you need to run that thing?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 8th 2006 9:04AM]

Quad-SLI

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 8th 2006 10:08AM]

700:1 is the same contrast ratio that Apple's 30-inch display has. It's not "poor contrast performance" by most people's standards.

C-Net says "Some manufacturers use a full-screen contrast-test technique, which yields artificially inflated ratios that are much higher than those we obtain when using the checkerboard pattern."
http://reviews.cnet.com/Labs/4520-6603_7-5112469.html

Granted, that page is about projectors, but I remain skeptical of any claims of radical contrast ratios.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 8th 2006 10:56AM]

why would you need quad SLI, its only 1920x1080 my 2 1/2 year old PC can do that resolution.

[spin cycle Posted Jun 8th 2006 2:23PM]

If you waited in the Wii line at E3, you already have plenty of experience with Sharp 65" LCDs. The people you could talk to outside on the video screens were being displayed on them, and the 4 displays inside that showed the same people waving the Wiimote around (the inner line) were also these.

They're awesome.

See here:

http://www.sharpusa.com/products/ModelLanding/0,1058,1572,00.html?sid=MTS05&attr=Model_LC-65D90U

And it's 1200:1.

Why a newer one with worse specs is news is beyond me.