Sharp has been on the fringes of the US TV market for several years, but that could change. The company, which remains headquartered in Japan but has been majority-owned by Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn since 2016, has announced plans to sell 4K OLED TVs powered by Roku in the US in the spring of 2023. That could be the first chance for people to buy a Roku TV with an OLED panel. The company will also introduce its latest mini-LED QLED TV, the Aquos XLED.
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Details on both TVs are weak so far. But according to Sharp’s press release, the company plans to sell its OLED TV in 55-inch and 65-inch screen sizes. It will be powered by the Roku smart TV OS, as will the company’s entry-level LCD TVs, which will be available in 50-, 55-, 65- and 75-inch sizes.
The news of Sharp’s Roku OLED TV comes just days after Roku announced that it has created a reference design for Roku-powered OLED TVs and that it intends to start manufacturing its own TVs. This isn’t Sharp’s first OLED TV — the company has been selling OLED-based models under the name Aquos OLED for several years in Japan and other markets. We still don’t know if Sharp will also call its American version Aquos OLED.
In Japan, Sharp’s OLED TVs are compatible with Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG and are equipped with HDMI 2.1 inputs that support 4K at 12oHz.
Sharp’s 4K Aquos XLED will be available at the same time in the US and soon after in additional countries such as Canada and Mexico. It will come in 65-, 70- and 75-inch sizes, and its mini-LED backlighting will be split into as many as 2,000 zones, which should give it very good control over black levels and bloom – where light from a strong area can spill over into a darker area of the screen.
The company says the Aquos XLED will run Google TV Smart TV OS and will be equipped with “high-performance” speakers at the top and bottom of the screen. In what could be a hint of things to come, Sharp has unveiled a mammoth 120-inch version of the Aquos XLED at CES 2023. It claims the model is one of the world’s largest flat-panel displays powered by mini-LED backlighting.
No pricing has been announced for either of these new models, but as soon as we know the details, we’ll let you know.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn