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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. Clearly missing a trick. by queazocotal · · Score: 5, Funny

    To get truly astonishing pictures, they should add a black pixel, to improve contrast.

    1. Re:Clearly missing a trick. by camperdave · · Score: 2, Funny

      So when large parts of the scene are dirk, large parts of the backlighting is dimmed as well, thus increasing the contrast. It also saves a bit of power

      That's good, because Dragon's Lair consumes huge wads of power.

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  2. Re:Yellow... yawn by uglyduckling · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like Octarine?

  3. Re:Yes by FatSean · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you decide which pixel to sacrifice for the colour gambit?

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  4. Review by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 3, Funny
    "While you can read a glowing review of it here...."

    Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?

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  5. Re:Yellow... yawn by metamatic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or squant. The time is long overdue for squant support in televisions.

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  6. Yellow is the "gay" color? by seanvaandering · · Score: 3, Funny

    Right?

    /obscure? Hopefully not for the /. crowd...

  7. Re:Yellow... yawn by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Funny

    And the commercials with George Takei (I'm sure there's a "yellow peril" joke in there somewhere) in a white lab coat and the caption reads "actor portrayal" LIKE WE DIDN'T KNOW - IT'S GEORGE FREAKIN' TAKEI YOU IDIOTS!!

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  8. Re:Yes by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 5, Funny

    The red one, just like on Star Trek.

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  9. Re:Careful What You Laugh At by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    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.

    Well, I'm not sure if you're correct to laugh at this or not.

    Yes, you are. They make fun of it in the only such commercial I've seen, with George Takei.

  10. Re:Yellow... yawn by amRadioHed · · Score: 3, Funny

    I didn't recognize George Takei at first. Sure he's famous, but he's not William Shatner famous.

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  11. Re:RGB by inKubus · · Score: 3, Funny

    brick-shittingly amazing results

    Damn, I'm going to use this again on Slashdot.

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  12. Re:Yellow... yawn by LBt1st · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh My!

  13. Re:Local dimming has a problem by daeg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh my god... it's not full of stars...

  14. Re:RGB by cthulu_mt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that why Jersey Shore seems so bad?

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