Sharp Aquos: Difference between revisions

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"/>

Between 2015 and 2018, all Sharp brand TVs sold in the United States were made by Chinese manufacturing company [[Hisense]]. As of late 2019, Sharp Corporation has regained the license from Hisense and now continue making Sharp branded TVs.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sharp-hisense-idUSKCN1SE1HC {{Bare| URLtitle=Japan's Sharp to return to U.S. TV market, regains brand license inline| newspaper=Reuters | date=January8 May 2019 2022}}</ref>