What’s in the color yellow? For Sharp, the answer is: “A lot!”

Sharp announced their latest upgrade by adding the color yellow to the industry wide standard of RGB. The result? Well, it’s hard to show you, but in one word…stunning.

I went into Sharp’s booth completely skeptical. Yellow to me is fine, I’ve seen enough LCD’s, plasmas, projectors, DLPs, and everything else in the world to think that yellow is fine. It shows up in movies and I’ve never really thought there would be anything there. It’s not a primary color, and just don’t see how it’s going to make a big difference.

I’m happy to say, that I’m absolutely wrong and a complete idiot when it comes to yellow. It appears, that Sharp’s onto something here. Yellow, is extremely important.

With similar LCD sets, side by side (one equiped with Sharp’s 4th primary color and one without), the difference is clear. Sharp claims trillions of colors compared to millions using RGB technology.

In actual viewing though, it’s going to be really tough (and I mean really tough) for the average consumer to say “Hey! That’s a trillion colors!” What you will see are the colors from the QuadPixel sets offer fantastic color depth and vibrancy that, when compared to RGB sets, feels missing. The blacks are fantastic, but when it really hit me was when comparing the blues. The primary color that all sets have comes out completely more natural and life-like on the QuadPixel sets. Other primary colors were much more vibrant as well.

So while you’re not going to be able to pick out trillions of colors, the improvement of having a dedicated yellow color, makes a bigger improvement that you think.

Sets include 240hz, USB, PC input, 4 HDMI ports (F-O-U-R!!!), RS-232 port, and of course all in glorious 1080p.

Release dates are March through May. Sharp 820/810 series will be priced at around $1,800-$4,000, available in March 2010. Pricing on the 920/910 series was not yet available.

(Editor’s Note: There are a lot of reports out there about Sharp forgetting to include 3D in their CES line-up or ignoring it. Whatever the case, Tech Bucket Blog doesn’t care. We found it extremely refreshing without having 3D thrown in our faces. Just for one moment, we escaped the 3D barrage that has absolutely engrossed CES)

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