Sony Qualia 005

Juniper Foo | Aug 24, 2004

You know how just when you thought you'd taken the wrappings off the latest wow-wee TV, something better always comes along? Well, brace yourself. This time it's Sony with the launch of what it claims is the world's first LED flat-screen TV. What's different this time is LEDs being used as backlight. Apparently, this allows for truer and richer colors compared with your LCD TV which employs a conventional source of light. The Qualia 005 comes in two flavors--40 and 46 inch. But like all previous Qualia offerings from Sony, this one may not see light of day here. Bummer.

Price: US$7,697 for 40 inch, US$10,000 for 46 inch
Availability: Japan in November, globally end of year into 2005
Device: LED flat-screen TV
Basic specs: In 40 or 46 inch models, Emotion Engine, Graphics Synthesizer, DRC-MFv2 standard-TV-to-HDTV upscaler, Cross Media Bar GUI

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Anonymous says...
I saw the Qualia 005 in both 40 and 46 inch sizes in an electronic store in Tokyo. The picture was far superior to anything I've ever seen from CRT, LCD, Plasma, Front Projector.

Jun 18, 2005 07:35