EISA is the largest editorial multimedia organization in Europe, with a membership of approximately 50 audio, mobile electronics, video, and photo magazines drawn from 20 European countries.
A panel of judges comprising editors-in-chief and technical editors from EISA member magazines choose the best product in each category for awards, like Sharp's Time Shift TV Award. Once a year, consumers and industry insiders in Europe focus their attention on these prestigious awards presented to the most outstanding products and technologies from among all audio and video equipment introduced during the preceding twelve months.
The award-winning product and the reasons for granting the award are as follows:
Winning Product
The LC-52HD1E is a new product with high-value-added features such as double-speed 100-Hz frame rate conversion, Kameyama Plant No. 2 Full-HD LCD panel, HD tuners, and an integrated hard disk recorder. It is a "premium" model positioned at the very top of the European LCD TV market.
Using the integrated hard disk, users can enjoy recording and playing back TV programs, as well as time-shift recording, without the need for bothersome cable connections to external equipment. Sharp has also strived for great improvements in terms of usability, such as a photo viewing feature that allows the whole family to enjoy photographs taken with a digital camera via a USB connection.
Reason for the Award (excerpt from comments by EISA)
"With the LC-52HD1E, Sharp has built not only an excellent big-screen TV set, but also one that integrates the freedom to select and record TV programmes. This set's bright screen, dark colour performance and motion-smoothing 100Hz mode are impressive enough, but the real excitement surrounds an integrated hard disk recorder that is capable of capturing high-resolution video from HDTV broadcasts." -Sharp
Posted August 20th, 2007 by harminka
