Quattra?

[brps3]

Just recently seen a commercial about the Sharp Quattra tv. Will this really have a better picture than current LCD/Plasma's?

[wafi]

Sounds like a gimmick to me but I haven't really done any in depth research on it.

[Kino-Chan fan]

Not Quattra, but Quattron. The feature is that it includes Yellow in the RGB color, to have more colors in display. No 3D though.

[lojack1976]

I checked out a couple of them last night when I was in Best Buy and they look very impressive. Of course these sets weren't calibrated so I did notice that skin tones were a little too red, but it was obvious that the depth of color was improved overall on these sets.

They were surrounded by the new Sammies and Panny offerings and it was obvious that colors had much more pop to them. Content had a very three dimensional look. This wasn't that artificial look either like when a set is just set to the vivid setting and looks horrendous. Things looked very natural with only a few minor adjustments needed.

I also noticed that the black level was very good on these sets. I doubt the additional color has anything to do with that, but I thought that I would make note of this. The most impressive thing that I could see though was the off-axis viewing angles. They were just as good as any plasma in this regard. The picture didn't washout at all when moving way off-axis. I stood way off to the side and the picture looked exactly the same.

[swifty7]

please tell me that it had glossy screen and not matte!!!

I have to check it out...A.S.A.P

[MileHigh AI]

I have personally tried out the new Sharp Quattron televisions at my job. My work allowed me to bring in some of my personal Blu-Rays to display for customers and WOW!
Iron Man, Star Trek, and Pirates of the Caribbean not only looked absolutely amazing and better than I've ever seen them but every person who saw the television said the exact same thing: The images were practically jumping off the screen.

Then I did a test to see just how good these televisions are.
I put an animated title in "UP", which practically all animated titles look good on Blu-Ray so I put it on the other LED we had next to the Quattron and played them both at the same time on two of the same blu-ray players. The Quattron blew away the other LED with its intense color array and vast detail.

Then I put in Star Wars: Episode III on DVD in the Blu-Ray player to play on the Quattron. Yeah, while BluRay Players upgrade DVDs a bit, the Quattron TV gave the DVD's upgrade a powerboost. We had at least 45 people walk by and ask when Star Wars came out on Blu-Ray. They didn't believe we had a simple DVD in the player. The normal pixelation you see on all DVDs(in a BRplayer or not) was minimal and at times not even there at all.

That fourth color really does make a difference too as there were colors on Pirates I never even noticed on LCD screens.

Personally I've yet to see a TV this good and not sure if you guys are aware but Sharp is heavily promoting these with very reasonable prices

$1199-42"
$1499-46"
$1999-52"

Next payday one is coming home with me.
Oh and Yes Swifty, it has glossy screen!

[swifty7]

thanks for the report MileHigh!!!

thank God it has the glossy screen....I can't freaking stand matte!

$1999 for 52 is not bad at all that is if it really does shine above all other lcd display like you said.

are Sharp reliable or break easily like the Samsungs?