At Last, the Wall-Mount LCD TV
In 1991, Sharp introduced the world's first wall-mount LCD TV, incorporating the industry's largest 8.6-inch TFT LCD with 437,760 pixels, adhering to Sharp's high standards of brightness and picture clarity. With different designs to match different home interiors, the arrival of the wall-mount LCD TV was lauded by the media as a major achievement. And the world's first HDTV LCD projector also created a sensation.
Total Business Strategy for LCD
The company continued to reinforce its leadership position in the LCD field. It completed a new LCD plant in Tenri and a facility for mass-producing LCD panels in the US, Sharp Flat Display Manufacturing Company (SFDM). Together with the Liquid Crystal Display Group and LCD Visual Systems Division launched the previous year, these new facilities represented the consummation of a total system for LCD products, encompassing development, applications research, mass production and marketing.
Information Processing for the Individual and the Home
Sharp decided to make "information processing for the individual and the home" a key priority in generating new product demand. As people became more active in a wider range of fields, giving their time to a variety of activities, their information processing needs also became more complex. Sharp continued to introduce one new product after another to meet these requirements, from its first pocket-size cordless phones to TVs and VCRs with built-in receivers for satellite broadcasts, LCD video projectors, personal word processors, home facsimiles and electronic organizers.
Ecologically Responsible Corporate Citizen
To help deal with the global environmental problem, product quality, reliability and ecological responsibility were made key corporate themes. The definition of product quality was expanded to include all aspects from design to after-sales service. A new quality control system took into account the environmental implications of product quality. Efforts were made to reduce industrial waste, use of chlorofluorocarbons and pollution.