&gt;Sharp is dull and has been for years, and all the money in the world won&#x27;t resurrect this corpse.<p>Reason why no domestic player wanted to touch them with a 10foot pole though jp corps being sitting on huge mountains of money. What honhai did is secure the lcd fabs, get the patents (which seem not to be properly managed atm) and buy into japan inc. The revival of sharp as a brand seems like emotional lipservice to the japanese public.