Customer Reviews

Sharp LC-26GA4U 26-Inch AQUOS HDTV-Ready LCD Flat-Panel TV

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This TV is excellent on style, small footprint, and small comparative weight. This TV is best if your primarily watch DVD's or HDTV, and it is primarily a bedroom or second room TV, not a primary TV. The picture quality and size are not the best for regular cable TV, and the price definitely is not. It is awkward to connect all the necessary wires as they are all on one side or below the TV, and then you are supposed to thread them all through a removable panel with a 2 inch hole. Also, this version does not include a built in HDTV tuner. The computer monitor feature is good for hooking up to a laptop, but it uses up the only HDMI cable port.

We bought the Sharp Aquos LC-26DA5U 26" LCD TV a few weeks ago. Great picture quality, superb sound, stylish design. After a lot of research and numerous trips to stores, we narrowed our search down to Sony (picture), Samsung (price) and Sharp (middle ground). Sharp definitely gives you the best of both worlds - quality picture at a great price. One area for improvement - remote control design (reminds me of a laundry bat :-)). Thank you Amazon for the FREE standard shipping offer! Got the TV within a week of purchase.

Bought this TV in December 2004 (have had a 13" Aquos for a year and love it). About mid-January I started noticing 'flickering' of the picture. Sometimes it does it (and can get really dark too) and sometimes it doesn't. (I have replaced the cables with Monster brand and bought a new DVD recorder so I KNOW it has to be the TV). I'm reluctant to take it to a service center at this point since sometimes it works fine. Very frustrating! I called Sharp and they had no idea...told me just to take it to a service center. Too expensive a set for this kind of problem.

The picture is amazing we use this as a bedroom tv/ computer monitor. Analog tv is displayed well in wide mode. I have a Panasonic plasma also and it tends to make people look short and fat with both comcast digital and analog reception in wide mode display, the sharp doesn't do this as much. There seems to be some quality issues, my power supply failed after 5 weeks. The replacement supply is fine so far.