Customer Reviews

Sharp LC60LE830U Quattron 60-inch 1080p 120 Hz LED-LCD HDTV, Black

5 star:		(26)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I know that Greatter is not a word, that's how I feel about this Television.

Cnet didn't give this Television at great review, but they published calibration settings done by professionals that make this Television shine. I've read that getting your television professionally calibrated sets you back 2-3 Hundred. Below is the Calibration settings, thanks to Cnet Editor David Katzmaier.

++++++++++++++Beginning of Calibration

--Picture Settings menu

AV MODE: MOVIE
OPC: Off
Backlight: +4
Contrast: +30
Brightness: +1
Color: 0
Tint: 0
Sharpness: 0

--Advanced sub-menu

C.M.S. -Hue
R: 0
Y: +4
G: -5
C: +2
B: 0
M: +2

C.M.S. -Saturation
R: 0
Y: -2
G: -1
C: 0
B: -7
M: 0

C.M.S. -Value
R: +2
Y: 0
G: +9
C: +4
B: +3
M: 0

Color Gamut Range: Standard

Color Temp: Low
R Gain (LO): +11
G Gain (LO): +7
B Gain (LO): +13
R Gain (HI): -2
G Gain (HI): -7
B Gain (HI): 0

Motion Enhancement: 120Hz High
Quad Pixel Plus: On
Active Contrast: Off
Gamma Adjustment: +2
Film Mode: Off
Digital Noise Reduction: Off
Monochrome: Off
Range of OPC: [any]

++++++++++++++End of Calibration

When we set this Tv up , the picture was good but there was a high pitched, painful to the ear squeal. We thought it was the cable box, had the company out, not the problem. I researched on the internet and others had this problem and it was the power board. I Called Aquos and told them the problem and what we thought it might be, they sent out a repair crew, who thought it might be the speakers, or main board. They returned a few days later and replaced those two items, but the high pitched squeal remained. So they agreed to try and replace the power board. Another trip a week later and they replaced the power board... Ta da, the squeal was gone BUT now we could no longer connect to the internet wirelessly, which apparently is a main board issue. Arghhhhhhh. After a number of conversations with Aquos , they finally agreed to replace the whole thing, which they delivered today. It's now working, cross my fingers it stays that way. Also,we used the calibration settings listed here and they greatly improved the picture quality.
Bottom line, after 5 different service calls, it's a great picture, the wireless access is fabulous for the wii and apple TV, it was just very painful and time consuming to get to this point.
ps .the delivery guy said they have quite a few of these TVs, 60 and 52 inch that they have to pick up. At least Sharp replaced it, hopefully they'll continue to stand by their product if it goes haywire again.

This is a very large TV with an outstanding picture. So far the menus are easy to navigate and adjustments to almost anything can be made. There many advanced picture adjustments that are easy to find so you can tweak the picture to your liking. Out of the box in the "standard" picture mode the color temp was a little cold for my liking but after adjusting that the color was exactly what I was looking for. The "dynamic" and "dynamic-fixed" modes are useless and greatly over saturate all colors. Most picture modes have the "film mode" defaulted to on, this creates the very annoying "soap opera effect". Turn it off and everything looks great.
I did have an issue with the sound being out of sync with my surround sound system when coming from my satellite box. Originally I had an HDMI cable routed from my satellite box to the TV, then an optical cable from the satellite box to SS receiver. By routing the optical cable from the TV to the SS receiver fixed the issue. There seems to be a delay in video and audio processing in the TV which lead the audio from the SS to be ahead of the picture when I had it routed the first way. I only had this issue with satellite, blu-ray seems to be in sync and it is has its audio routed from the player directly to the SS receiver. When initially setting up the tv you have to select "set top box" for satellite and I think this might be where the TV induces the delay. The TV's speakers are average for a tv of this size, its only 1.75" thick so you cant expect much in the way of quality audio when the speakers are that thin. This is normal on every tv of this size that I have seen so I will not grade lower. I would think if you have a 60" tv you probably already have a SS system anyway, or at least a sound bar.
The tv has a feature called OPC that automatically adjusts screen brightness based on the amount of light in the room, at first I thought this would be a gimmick that I would just turn off but it actually works quite well. It keeps you from having multiple user settings for watching in various lighting conditions. This makes the tv more user friendly because you dont need to always be adjusting it.
The tv also has built in WIFI which is an upgrade from the previous model, I have only used it on NETFLIX so far. Streaming was easy to setup and worked fine but until Netflix streams in HD the large 60" screen just amplifies the fuzziness of low resolution streaming video. The WIFI is also great for software up dates.
Was very easy to mount on the wall and its lighter than my older 46" Toshiba. All things considered this is a great TV that 97% of consumers would be happy with. The other 3% will always find something to be unhappy about.

UPDATE AUG2011: For surround sound, route the optical cable from the TV to the surround sound receiver, not DVD player to surround sound receiver. I know I stated earlier that my BluRay player seemed to be more in sync with the tv picture but it is not. The delay was much less than coming from the satellite but there is still a slight delay in audio. If you run an optical cable from the tv to the surround sound receiver the TV process the sound the same as the picture and there is no delay. The only problem with this is the TV only puts out Dolby Digital and cannot output DTS, so for people who favor DTS (me) you will have to either learn to like Dolby or listen to DTS audio that is not in sync with the picture of the TV. Hope this helps those have have run into the "out of sync" issue.

After a couple weeks of research and many hours standing in front of TVs at Best Buy - the Sharp LC60LE830U turned out to be a great choice. I assumed the finalist would be either a Sony or Samsung model, but this Sharp beats the competition. Picture and sound are excellent. The on-screen menus are very user-friendly with numerous alternatives for custom settings. Built-in WiFi works great. Amazon's price, with free white glove delivery makes this a no-brainer.

replaced a Toshiba 65 inch DLP tv when the light engine began to fail and I couldn't be happier. Setup is a breeze, Netflix streams perfectly without lag or any problems other reviewers have mentioned. We did get a new wireless modem but its at the other end of the house- no issues with transmission.
The picture is amazing and we are still learning how to use some of the apps. Even tho this is a smaller TV than our last one the clarity more than makes up for the size difference. It's quiet (unlike the old toshiba) and doesnt seem to run as hot either.
Came well packed and on time. Great experience and saved 200 bucks over the local sears price, not to mention sales tax.

The picture looks amazing on this guy, especially with nice HD content or a Blu-ray playing. And, it looks great in dark or bright rooms which is nice if you're like me and have it in a larger room where you might be doing a movie night with lights off or just hanging out and the girlfriend wants to be reading/working/on computer.

So, overall, great picture and I think the sound is beyond expectations for a thin TV. But, the following is worth reading through if you're picky like me.

Couple notes on the options I think are worth spelling out:

1) There are a lot of them as far as picture setup goes. Thankfully, there are several posts here, on CNET and on AVS forums about settings people have tried as far as the Advanced Color settings are concerned. But I will say, I don't really feel like I should have to go that deep to by happy with my TV picture. I feel like it took awhile to find the preset/settings that most content will look good on for me, almost to the point where I started to feel hopeless about it.

2) As others have said, "Film Mode" is default set to ON for most picture presets. This makes no sense to me, as it creates a very strong "soap opera" effect. So, just go through each one and turn it off and be done with it. HOWEVER - I did notice that when playing a Blu-ray CG cartoon movie (in my case, Kung Fu Panda) having the Film Mode set to ON actually created a very nice almost simulated 3D effect, and was very cool. But ONLY on that type of content. For all others, leave it off and never go back.

3) The OPC function, when set to ON will auto adjust the backlight (at least I think that's what it's doing). This seems to work fine, and the picture looks great, I'm just not sure why they put the option on there. At first I thought "oh nice, if I turn the lights on/off, it will adjust" but it doesn't seem to do that. All that really happens, is, when you turn this option OFF, the TV just gets a lot brighter. I guess I'd much rather just turn the backlight down to what looks good once, then be done with it.

4) I found that just leaving motion enhancement to OFF was the best, but I don't watch a lot of sports, so that might be a totally different story there.

Beyond the options, here are a few other things worth mentioning:

1) You can notice some unevenness in backlighting when the screen is all white or black. When all black you can see bright spots, and when all white the corners look unevenly dark. The dark corners also seems to be an inconsistent thing - not always there. I think all this is just a drawback of such a large Edge-lit LED LCD.

2) As some others have said, the remote does feel cheap. I only mention this because the button presses just feel "wrong" and I had the Flashback button (a.k.a. Previous Channel button) stick on me more than once which then constantly switched the channel until I figured out what had happened. And, there's a bit of an audible click when pressing a button - not really that loud, but I've never had a remote (for anything) that felt like this before.

The only reason i'm letting all that take away one star is mainly because of the first thing - I just feel that I have to screw around too much with the settings to get it right. I love the picture, but several times I was left with the feeling "well, does that look weird because the TV is weird or is it because I just happened to pick some weird combination of 7 different settings??". And, I still don't feel like there's one preset I can use for just about everything I watch (except for games, which I don't mind switching for). I play DVDs, Blu-rays, Games, Hulu, Netflix and video from a PC all on my PS3 - so the input memory of the preset doesn't really help me there. I don't want to have to switch every time I play something different.

With all that said - this is a tremendous value for the price. If 60" is the size you're after, it's very hard to beat this if you don't mind all the options (and of course, some people expect that level of control for the money).

I bought this TV from Amazon, and has turned out to be a great purchase till now. Few things to note:
1. The out of box settings for the TV are really bad. Use the calibration settings from the Cnet review to fix that. Another reviewer had posted them here.
2. The TV is really huge, so low resolution video looks fuzzy on it. It is watchable, but you wont realize the capabilties of the TV if that is all you watch.
3. It is a good value for the money, though the screen is somewhat unevenly backlit in totally black scenes.

I purchased this TV for a friend who wanted to upgrade his living room TV to something thinner and bigger. This TV is absolutely amazing! The picture quality is absolutely amazing while the overall quality of the TV seems to be very nice. The setup the TV was very simple and the price was great - $1,899 with free shipping from Pauls TV. I would highly recommend this TV to anyone looking for a 60" LED tv at a great price.

This TV is exactly what I wanted and it's easy to set-up and use. Absolutely nothing to complain about so far. I've had it for over a week and there just are not any problems. I am happy I got it and would recommend it to friends. The only thing I would caution anybody about is the spotty telephone set-up support and registration that you don't really need. Skip it and register on-line. You can do it all on-line and it's easier and also less prone for errors in your address or name spelling. Anyway, it's a great TV----great picture clear, bright, and sharp (pun not intended)---It has OK sound, stereo surround with built in subwoofer but could be better if you added a $599 Bose speaker system but you can wait for that, no hurry, it's fine as is. Sports action is truly exciting with this screen and the 120 Hz. Very thin and light and looks great on the wall. A totally good deal on Amazon with free shipping.

I bought this TV from a retailer and I couldn't be happier in what I received. The picture quality is amazing and the price was very good for what you get. The WI FI makes it easier to connect to the net and update your software. The only downside is the browser limitations, hopefully that will change with a patch or two. I suggest you have someone to help you set it up, because you literally have to fip it upside down to get the stand fastened to the TV. I am very happy so far....