What was the actual first LCD TV (NOT pocket size)?
 

I'm curious as to what was the first set available in 10" or larger? I have a Sharp Aquos 13" (Model LC-13B4), which I am thinking is pretty early. Very heavy for a 13" flat panel set, no ATSC tuner, and no HDMI or DVI. Only component and standard video. It also has no internal power supply. Made in Japan (not other Asian countries).

Charles
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...quosLC-13B.jpg

I know that the first Plasma was introduced in 1997 with a 42-inch screen by Fujitsu for $14999.

i remember seeing a Sharp lcd tv reviewed in popular electronics in the early 90s. Never saw one in person though. About ten years older than the one pictured above.

Sharp had a hand-held LCD projector in the early 90s... I remember working on one that had been damaged in the '94 Northridge Earthquake, so that ensures the date as <1994. Was the one you saw in the magazine, a TV projector or flat screen TV?

I THINK I remember seeing LCDs "described" in Popular Science magazine back in the late '60s...Could be wrong, though...That's been slept on a few times...

The Sharp projectors with a single lens were out there already, but I remember the TV as being about a 14 inch, and costing an amount of money which explains how rare it is. The article with it said something to the effect that there was a very high reject rate with such large LCD panels at the time.

This is it, scroll down to "world's first LCD TV"

I read about it a couple years after it was introduced, apparently.

http://sharp-world.com/corporate/inf...989/index.html

The first Sharp LCD was the Sharp Color 3ML 100BK CRYSTALTRON a 3 inch TFT model introduced late 1987. In June, 1988, Sharp demoed a prototype 14 inch color TFT and the first non pocket Sharp LCD TV to buy was a 8.6 inch wall mountable TFT color introduced in 1991.

Reading a little further on that page I see a claim about a refrigerator.

"Dual-Swing Door Refrigerator

Other new products included the industry's first refrigerator which allowed the same door to open from either side, and an English-Japanese translation system that used OCR (optical character recognition) to read English text and translate it into Japanese."

Did they not know of Philco's V-Handle refrigerator from the 1950's?

Good day all,

To expand on this subject, The first LCD television was the Seiko TV watch in 1982. It came in two pieces the watch/display and the the receiver connected by a thin cable.

The second LCD TV was the Casio TV 10, a 2.7 inch black and white passive display in 1983.

The first color LCD TV was the Seiko T102 in 1984, a 2 inch and the first TFT LCD TV.

Prior to 1990, the largest LCD TV's were 4 inches, by Sony, Philips and a few others.

Sharp was the Company that pushed the envelope into larger LCD TV's. They were the first with a 5.6 inch color TFT TV and the 8.6 inch mentioned above. They continued introducing larger sizes first and eventually other company's caught up.

How do I Know? ... this old techno fart/geek was around buying them as they first came out. Stated collecting transistor radios in 1956, then TV's in 1960. :-) Probably more then you wanted to know. :-)

Back in the 90's,I use to attend the CES shows.One year (do not recall exactly,but thinking '95 or '96),Sony had a huge closed in demonstration area.They had a few prototype LCD 16x9 rear projection sets that were in the 40-50" range.

yup, I think it was Seiko that had the first B&W LCD in Popular Science....