Sharp's 52-inch LCD TV prototype: Just 1.1-inches thick!

Like your flat panels flat, we mean, really flat? Then check this, Sharp's prototype LCD which jams a 100,000:1 contrast ratio into a 52-inch LCD display only 20-mm (0.78-inches) thick. Right, we're talking LCD, not OLED. In fact, the entire TV measures just 29-mm (1.14-inches) at its thickest point while covering 150% of the NTSC color gamut and consuming just 140 kWh/year. Shazam! Unfortunately, Sharp fails to mention the resolution but tells us to expect the new TVs sometime in 2010. See her in profile after the break with plenty more over at Japan's Impress in the Via link below.

[Via Impress]

[Jamie @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:30AM]

I'll take one.

[jivetrky @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:39AM]

I'll take two!

(We're talking about the girl, right?)

[Gil @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:46AM]

I'll take both

[eric @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:09AM]

shiiii, gime two of both

[ishtari @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:39AM]

What's next, LCD tapestries? :)

[zed @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:47AM]

A real PROTOTYPE if you ask me.

[tchiseen @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:04AM]

1.1 inches? is that it? cmon' can't they get it thinner then that? weeak.

[PenaltyKillah @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:20PM]

Are you thinking of PMPs? This is a TV, for God's sake. Not a monitor... Anyway, I still prefer OLED, but it's expensive for big displays.

[humpty @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:28AM]

Most likely it will have a control/component box tethered to it.

[sujith @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:01AM]

it's nice one. i think sharp is the first company in this slim tv

[Ruben Espinoza @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:57AM]

schweet

[Constable Odo @ Aug 22nd 2007 9:52AM]

Futatsutomo, onegai shimasu. Nice stuff. Wouldn't that display have a tendency to flex quite a bit (making it prone to damage) when moving it around? That is unbelievably thin for a display that size. Might as well call it the Nicole Richie of LCD displays.

[HineyWipe @ Aug 22nd 2007 11:53AM]

Come now. It's a prototype, not the consumer product, so expect it not to be moved around. I figure it will be a wall mount only. And if 1" is glass, it won't flex...but it will be heavy. And what about the backlight; is it LED? That would keep the wattage down and the gamut up.

[Constable Odo @ Aug 22nd 2007 2:06PM]

I didn't think the glass would be 1" thick. I figured the glass would only be about quarter-inch thick. When I say moving it around, I mean just taking it out of the box and mounting it somewhere. I probably just don't know enough about LCD TVs. What I'm going by is how flexible the screen on my MacBook Pro is and that's only 15" in size. I'm sure there would be ways of stiffening it with crossbracing or backing panels.

[Anthony @ Aug 22nd 2007 11:06AM]

sony made a million to 1 contrast ratio 30" tv that was 3 mm thick. or 2 mm thick, i forgot.

but that was oled, lcd is thicker, and needs a backlight, so more thickness, and the screen is mad with a glass insert, so more casing, and more thickness. then theres the plastic, (or probably more expensive, glass) that covers the front of the screen that you see. there could be more deatils, but lcds really cant be that thin.

[ceevee @ Aug 22nd 2007 1:33PM]

Wow. 52 inches & thin!

[zamir.evan @ Aug 22nd 2007 2:35PM]

I just hope they don't use Apple's now-retired "You can't be too thin" iMac slogan.