Customer Reviews

Widescreen Rear-projection High Definition Television

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It was great for 6 months... but please do not... I repeat... do not buy this television. This is a discontinued item. I brought this TV last November 2005 only had it for 6 months. And now it's been nothing but one big headache. This thing started making strange wining noises. And couldn't get any picture. At first they thought it was the lamp that needed replacing. Not!
Still waiting to find out what's wrong with this thing. I know I probably got a defective television. But I wish I would had brought my 61 panasonic TV instead of this thing. Oh well, 2553 down the drain.

I can't believe any retailer is still trying to sell this TV...it has problems that Sharp is already aware of...notice how they don't attempt to build/sell/service 56 inch screen DLPs anymore.

Mine went out after 24 months. No warranty. Light engine was replaced by Sharp for free, b/c I got on the phone and pleaded a case that the part was more expensive than the TV. They said after this one time generosity, I'd be on my own. I thought that was fair. Kudos to Sharp for making it right.

However, I thought it was my duty to inform you of the problem.

BTW: The light engine is the millions mirrors, etc...it is dynamically built in w/ the color wheel. bad design. I think they learned from the problem and have started to build the TVs better.

I bought an LG for my bedroom and a Toshiba for my bonus room. I've had better experiences w/ both. I hear Samsung is good too. Pick LCD.

We purchased this TV in December of 2005 for about $2500. It was great for one year until it started making terrible noises and the picture stopped. Fortunately we bought a warranty, but it cost over $1800 to repair it (which the warranty covered). Within a year, the bulb burned out and this time the warranty wouldn't cover it. We would have had to invest another $5-600 again to make this repair. We tried contacting Sharp hoping to get some assistance since at this point, the repairs on the TV now almost exceeded the original cost of the set to begin with! Sharp refused to help. Please, please, please do not buy this TV!

This TV has color wheel issues. They go bad in 6-12 months. Sharp could care less and they dont help. I had to throw mine out in a year because the color wheel went bad.

DONT buy this hdtv, its a waste of your money. after about 6 months, the tv begins to hum very loud and its the most annoying thing in the world especially if your watching tv. to be completely honest, dont buy any rear projection of any kind. right now im looking to replace the sharp 56dr650 with a plasma or lcd tv mainly because they dont hum louder that the volume the tv is. iv had my 56dr650 for 18 months and they only way to replace the color wheel (the part that hums) it to buy another 56dr650 and take the color wheel out, so what the point in doing that. if you wanna save yoursELf some trouble, DONT BUY THIS HDTV