Japan PSP (sharp screen) or US PSP (samsung screen)?

[Tetlee]

Hi all,

Doe's anyone know which screen is better out of the Samsung or Sharp screen? I see some ebay sellers claiming that the Sharp screen is superior to the US Samsung, is this true?
Trying to decide which to order, guess apart from the screens doesn't make much difference apart from UMD region coding

[KezzaBezza25]

i can't speak for the US version but i've got the Jap version and the screen is excellent. However, if you read up on Samsung their not happy chaps at present because their product is as good as Sony's but their brand is crap and that's why people ask the questions you've just asked.

I would say that the samsung screen will be quality (they wouldn't ship a heap of crap to the states) so choose what you want. I think the Sharp vs Samsung argument is pretty fickle

[Throttle]

Ive got a usa psp and the picture seems very good quality to me to be honest
Is there anywhere apart from places that sell psp's that claim the jap sharp screens are better quality than a usa samsung ? ...I just wondered if it was said to get people buy the Jap psp as the usa would be more favourable as it got spiderman 2 umd free on first batch and has all english manuals etc:

[Ekko Star]

There was a side by side comparison on the net some time ago.

Whilst I imagine the Samsung screen is ok in it's own right. When compared side by side against the Sharp it certainly appeared far inferior.

Not sure about the response time comparison. The Sharp is prone to ghosting so the Samsung maybe better in that. But for picture quality Samsung wasn't even close to the Sharp

[jenic]

It was decided that the comparison picture was a fake. The difference was just too much .

[atariboy]

We used Samsug laptops and tft screens at work and the picture quality is brilliant. NO dead pixels either. A rumour has been going around that Samsung is promiseing a no dead pixel policy and that may well sort out the dead pixel problem by the time Sony relase the PSP in Europe

[Seth Gecko]

If you look at some of the Samsung mobile phones, they are generally regarded as one of, if not, the best screens out there. Not only that, but Sony have apparently "recruited" them in helping them with their LCD TV screens - so I would imagine they aren't exactly going to be duff.

[atariboy]

yep I agree, I dont think we have anything to worry about the quality of Samsung products. They are now number two behind Nokia in the mobile phone market

[Ekko Star]

Whilst they maybe ok. I wouldn't like to comment until I've seen them for myself beside a Sharp one. When it comes to TFT screens the Samsung's are generally not close to the Sharps which are regarded as one of the very best of the premium brand manufacturers of screens. So it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the Samsung was inferior. Nor have I read that article on comparison was ever discredited, if I recall correctly it was released by Sony themselves ?

[atariboy]

well at the end of the day, anyone now importing a PSP or waiting for a UK spec one will have a Samsung screen rather than a Sharp so I guess it is immaterial

[papachumba]

Well the picture that was posted was a picture of 2 tft monitors as i recall, a sharp one and a samsung one. Somone included it in the post and now everyone thinks sharp psp screen is better. (i do have the Jap one
Its amazing how roumors spread through the net.
Until we see a direct comparison posted by someone of both Jap and US PSPs side by side with hi-quality pics and their own honest opinion, we will never know.

[Ekko Star]

The picture was two PSP's side by side, not TFT monitors.

[Spoonman2]

I still think this is a load of peanut juice....... to quote Craig David.

Spoony.

[jenic]

The picture was of two psp's but it was decided on one forum that the picture was edited or the picture put on the psp was different. IMO i would like the sharp screens to be better than samsung (because thats what ive got and i like to be better than my friends who willl have samsung screens) but in reality the quality difference is likely to be unnoticeable.

I have both in front of me right this second.
I would say that the Japanese one is very slightly better, alittle brighter and alittle crisper.