The Aquos Designer's Edition that belongs next to your Noguchi sofa

What do you get when you cross Sharp's already attractive Aquos line and a designer-name designer, like Toshiyuki Kita? The Designer Edition, duh. Their 37-inch widescreens have been designed with black lacquer, tan leather (ew), and black oak finishes, and have a 1,366 x 768-pixel resolution (not quite the 1,920 x 1,080 HDTV spec but we'll live) and an 800:1 contrast ratio. So it's not too shabby; but we're really concerned because they're claiming it has 3 million pixels (it actually has 1.05 million) by counting the three sub-pixels in every proper pixel (it'd be like Canon saying one of their three megapixel cameras had nine megapixels). We've never heard of a company do that, and it's as shady a marketing team can get. You really want them muddying your name like that, Kita-san?

[Via Tech Digest]