Sharp Aquos: Difference between revisions

The '''Sharp Aquos''' is a product brand name for [[LCD television]]s and component screens, originally sold by [[Sharp Corporation]] of [[Japan]]. In 2015, Chinese manufacturing company [[Hisense]] accrued Sharp America's assets and brandalso to be able to sell Sharp TV's madeused by Hisense in the United States. Between 2015 and 2018, all Sharp brand TVs sold in the United States were made by Chinese manufacturing company [[Hisense]]. This however, is no longer true after a potential lawsuit in 2017, that was later dropped in 2018, and a resurgence and recovery of the Sharp brand and manufacturing in the United States by Sharp, Sharp TV's sold in the United States are now made by Sharp as of late 2019licensees.

It encompasses small, portable models (e.g. the 13" B series) up to large home-theater screens (e.g. 65" high-definition widescreen models), as well as component screens for portable devices including mobile phones. Aquos was first released in 2001 with 13", 15", and 20" 4:3 sizes starting, pricing at $1,799.99, $2,999.99, and $4,999.99 respectively. Since then, the Aquos brand is Sharp's premium LCD line (as Sharp also makes non-Aquos LCD TVs that sell for less), and recently they have been the first series of LCD HDTVs to feature integrated [[Blu-ray]] Disc players with the BD-60U and BD-80U series debuting in 2009. Some Aquos LCD TVs are notable for displaying color in a [[Quattron|RYGB color space]] known as [[Quattron]], which adds a yellow component, as opposed to the standard [[RGB color space]] used by most color televisions.

In 2015, Sharp's North America TV business was sold to China based [[Hisense]], allowing them to sell TVs in the United States. The intention to acquire was announced in July 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reviewed.com/televisions/news/chinas-hisense-buys-sharp-us-tv-business-24-million|title=Sharp TVs: Now Brought to You by China's Hisense|date=July 31, 2015|website=Reviewed Televisions|access-date=2019-04-15}}</ref> [[Sharp Corporation]] was subsequently acquired by Taiwan based Foxconn in August, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/da1f3fc0-602c-11e6-b38c-7b39cbb1138a |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221211/https://www.ft.com/content/da1f3fc0-602c-11e6-b38c-7b39cbb1138a |archive-date=2022-12-11 |url-access=subscription|title=Foxconn completes $3.8bn takeover of Sharp|last=Inagaki|first=Kana|date=August 12, 2016|website=Financial Times|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-04-15}}</ref> In 2017, the new owner of Sharp, [[Foxconn]] filed a lawsuit against Hisense concerning quality of TVs sold under its Sharp branding citing the TVs "violate FCC rules on electromagnetic interference emissions, and [...] Hisense gave consumers deceptive information about picture size, brightness levels and the 4K resolution."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reviewed.com/televisions/features/sharp-says-sharp-brand-tvs-in-the-us-are-shoddily-made|title=Sharp says Sharp-brand TVs in the US are 'shoddily' made|last=Neikirk|first=Lee|date=June 13, 2017|website=Reviewed Televisions|access-date=2019-04-15}}</ref> This lawsuit was dropped in early 2018.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lifewire.com/hisense-now-has-sharp-assets-1847076|title=Hisense Acquires Sharp America's Assets and Brand Name in U.S. Market|last=Robert|first=Silva|date=January 2, 2019|publisher=Lifewire|language=en|access-date=2019-04-15}}</ref>