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Pros: Capable of very accurate color if the CMS (Color Management System) is calibrated properly. Great feature set, and good setup and calibration utilities right in the Advanced User menu.
To Buy Or Not To Buy? Definitely recommended. One advantage over the Panasonic TC-P58V10: this set is capable of being a lot brighter while maintaining its color accuracy.
Video Socialism, Good news in BD Land, and a Bold Prediction
I'm writing this month's column from the world's largest media circus, the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Apparently the marketing guys (they're the glass-is-half-full crowd) think the recession is easing because the attendance seems to be up a bit - 120,000 alleged, up 5% from 2009. For me, however, at least in the Home Theatre arena, it was a case of volume up, quality down. Several of the HT mainstays didn't show up and consequently, it just didn't feel the same. Those who did make it, all brought RED and BLUE glasses. You could hardly walk an aisle without getting 3D'ed from both sides!
Pros: Good setup features including selectable gamma curves, and a full suite of grayscale controls in the advanced menu.
Cons: Primary and secondary colors are way off of the HDTV Rec 709 specification, which means overall color accuracy is not good.
To Buy or Not To Buy: Definitely not recommended unless you mate it with a video processor that has a good CMS (Color Management System) to compensate for the incorrect color gamut, which will ultimately make it too expensive a package.
Clearly, Sharp is working on improving their LCD's
after losing significant market share to the main competitive set. Can
the new LE series cut it? We have suggested settings as a great
starting point. Tell us what you think of them.