By: mikexp (21-Jul-08)      Experience with product: 9

Strengths:	Picture is ok quality
Weaknesses:	Red dots on the screen and VERY poor customer service!

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Don't waste your time and money. Stick with Samsung. Red dots appeared on the screen and customer service won't do anything to fix it. These dots are very annoying. I have another Samsung hdtv that has never given me any problems. I'm giving up on sharp.

By: garak99 (27-Nov-07)      Experience with product: Not specified

Strengths:	Picture - ON Screen Menu
Weaknesses:	Built in speakers non HD shows

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No technical stuff from me it\\\\\\\'s just simply a great picture. Anything on the HD side in either 720p or 1080i looks crystal clear. I\\\\\\\'m not too keen on the built in speakers but that is probably true for all HD sets but when you plug in the Surround Sound or Speakers witha good Stereo system it\\\\\\\'s just as I said awesome.

By: sharpuser (17-Sep-07)      Experience with product: 8 Months

Strengths:	Good picture for 42" LCD, easy settings, and standard remote.
Weaknesses:	Alot of factory defects in this series, typically serial numbers starting with 6. Learned that dynamic contrast of less than 10k:1 is not a good thing when viewing analog programs.

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I really enjoyed this LCD flatpanel when I got it in Dec 2006. However, a few months later the entire display would pulse for a few minutes after power up. Eventually, it would pulse all the the time. Also, heard alot of squealing noise from the back of the unit and eventually it developed a dark 1/2" vertical line on the right side of the display and a light 1/2" vertical line on the left side of the display. Note, I never saw banding, as reported elsewhere on the internet. I called Sharp, they asked if I could email digital pictures of what it was doing. I emailed a 10 second mpeg of the pulsing and jpegs of the vertical lines. Sharp emailed back that they would exchange it, by me returning it to the original store I bought it at. But the store was out of 42" Sharps, so I paid the difference and upgraded to the LC-46D82U. See my 5 star review on the 46". Note, I was not too worried about this 42" having problems. Most of the other brands available in December 2006, like Sony's XBR had clouding issues, along with Samsung (i.e. they co-own the LCD factory). I believe Sharp has fixed their production issues by now.

By: jpletcher (20-Apr-07)      Experience with product: 1

Strengths:	Beautiful TV, worth every penny
Weaknesses:	Don't get it delivered

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The first one I received had dark smudges in the lower left hand section. This looked like an obvious manufacture defect, and I was able to return it to the local warehouse chain for a full refund (including shipping). I then ordered a second one. The box it came in looked beat up and had obviously been mishandled. I just opened it up to find the display completely shattered. Now I am going to have to return it a second time. It's really to bad that such a beautiful TV must experience so much trauma on the way to my house.

By: scott099 (09-Mar-07)      Experience with product: 3 Days

Strengths:	picture is excellent, stylish design, 2 HDMI inputs, digital audio output, nice cord routing, menu is easy to navigate
Weaknesses:	the factory picture settings are not good. within minutes I was able to get it looking great though. could use another S-video input but no biggie

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overall this is the best TV I could find for the price. other than having to tune the picture settings out of the box it was easy to setup. Ive only watched DirecTV in non-HD and DVD in 480i sofar but even that was good. im sure once I can feed it a 1080 signal it will really come to life.I really like the audio output. when you switch between dvd, satellite, ect the audio comes out the dedicated audio out to your amp.would highly recommend this TV