Don't you think alot of HDs show alike?

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Well here's why:

Sony puts more cash into flat screens

Sharp end of the deal

By Nick Farrell: Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 8:14 AM

SONY is buying LCD screens from Sharp in a bid to bolster its flagging sales.

According to the Nikkei Sony will invest $926 million in a plant Sharp is building to make panels for flat TVs.

The information comes from a deep throat within Sony and an official announcement was expected sometime today.

Sharp is spending $3.5 billion on the new plant which will churn out 40-inch, 50-inch and 60-inch flat tellies. It will be online by 2010.

Sony has not made LCD or plasma display panels but has preferred to shop at its chum Samsung.

However lately the outfit has been a bit worried about supply, and it has not been doing very well on the telly market.

It is a somewhat strange world when the big three telly makers, who are all sworn to kill each other in the marketplace are buying gear off each other and investing in each others companies.

Sharp has been a bit of an also ran in comparison to the other two.

So next time you get in an argument with someone over who's HD display shows better, just remember it's prolly the SAME DAMN THING and thus the argument is stupid... "MY SONY BRANDED SHARP AQUOS shows better than your run of the mill SHARP AQUOS"...

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It's true I don't see much difference in terms of the visual but I also take into account quality and reliability etc. I do see some marked differences in how each HD shows when comparing price points ( that is 600 dollar 720p vs a 900 dollar 720p)  I guess because they have different refresh rates and contrast ratios.

But i don't think all of them look the same unless both has the same specs; and I don't really shop on brand name unless to ensure I getting a quality product.

It will hurt Samsung who were their previous partners. Samsung rose to the top of the LCD market because of their partnership with Sony, they might lose some branding there and people may go over to Sharp since it has Sony's backing. Sony account for 2-3 trillion won of teh 4 trillion of sales profit that they got from their LCDs.