I’m not bothered by it, but I’m gonna think of that now every time I see that commercial.
Sharp USA is a subsidiary of an Osaka based parent company. I didn’t think skin tones for Japanese were that far from Caucasian. Now, if they ever add a magenta pixel and could get Patricia Quinn to do the commercial … that would be something - and she’s younger that Takei.
What I want to know is how they determine the driver function for the yellow pixels, since there is no specific signal for yellow. They must be deriving it from the RG portion of the data, but I don't see how that would significantly improve the image, except that you can now directly display the yellows without having to mix the color.
I can see getting an marginal increase in the yellows intensity, but it seems like a bit of a reach unless they are going to flesh out the set. I would assume that the next logical step would be to add the other two secondary colors in future TVs. Now, if someone will please develop a silver LED, we could really get metals to look real.Silver isn’t a color, though. When you see something silver, you recognize it as silvery because of the way it reflects the colors in its vicinity. As it is, if we see something silver on TV, it’s reflecting the colors of the other things on the set, just as we would expect. If, however, you made some sort of pixel that actually turned silvery, it would reflect the colors in your living room, and thus look out of place with the rest of the scene.