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Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype?

Posted by timothy on from the hi-fi-jumprope dept.

Nom du Keyboard writes "Sharp Aquos brand televisions are making a big deal about their Quattron technology of adding a 4th yellow pixel to their RGB sets. While you can read a glowing review of it here, the engineer in me is skeptical because of how all the source material for this set is produced in 3-color RGB. I also know how just making a picture brighter and saturating the colors a bit can make it more appealing to many viewers over a more accurate rendition – so much for side-by-side comparisons. And I laugh at how you are supposed to see the advantages of 4-color technology in ads on your 3-color sets at home as you watch their commercials. It sounds more like hype to extract a higher profit margin than the next great advance in home television. So is it real?"

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  1. Re:Pure hype by budfields · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why is what you "suspect", without any support whatsoever, supposed to be interesting?

  2. Introducing the Monotron!! by Mike+Rice · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I was going to post a satire of the Quattron commercial, but /. prevented me with "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters."

    The characters I used were all standard ASCII, WTF?!

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