| | | |  - 52" Full HD 1080p HDTV LED-TV with 120Hz Fine Motion Enhanced
- 10-Bit processing and Crystalucent coating Technology
- UltraBrilliant LED System
- 4 HDMI terminals, PC input, RS-232C Input, AQUOS Net, USB Photo Viewer
- 4ms response time
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| | | |  Product Description:
With the introduction of the LC52LE700UN, Sharp combines its legendary AQUOS LCD panel technology with a newly developed, proprietary Full Array LED backlight system to create picture quality that is second to none. The LC52LE700UN illustrates Sharp's LCD technology leadership while also demonstrating its LED engineering advantages. Sharp's Ultra Brilliant LED system illuminates the TV to extremely high brightness and contrast levels and enables significant environmental benefits such as longer life expectancy, no heavy metals and lower power consumption. At the same time, the new XGen LCD Panel utilizes an ingeniously devised pixel design that permits more light to pass through even while minimizing light leakage, with the result being the deepest black levels that AQUOS has ever achieved. Overall, the LC52LE700UN shows that with Sharp, it's not just LED… it's AQUOS LED. | | | | |
Average Rating : 
Rating :  - Great TV with a few minor flaws
I picked this TV up when it was on sale for really cheap. I probably could have gone with a slightly smaller TV but I'm glad I got this. There are a couple things that bother me but none of them are major or deal breaking.
First off, the menu interface is clear and easy to use. There are a ton of settings, so if you like to play around with settings you're in for a treat. As you adjust the sliders for a setting the TV updates itself live so you can easily see the effect of the parameter you're adjusting.
I don't really care about power consumption much so I turned the OPC feature off. However, when I was first setting it up and OPC was still on, it seemed to dim and light up the screen as it detected the image was dark or bright. However, the LEDs do take a few seconds to ramp from low to high intensity so if you want the best image quality, I suggest turning it off.
The wattmeter I hooked up to the TV tells me that it draws 136W when the backlight is highest. When OPC is turned on, it ranges from that to about 60W when it's very dim.
The TV takes about 15 seconds to turn on, and then 5 more seconds for the LEDs to warm up (as mentioned above).
There are plenty of ports on the back; there's also a 3.5mm jack for audio from a computer if your video card doesn't interleave the audio onto the HDMI for you. There is also a cable jack for cable TV, S-Video, Composite, Component, VGA, and 4 HDMI ports so you'll be able to hook anything up to this TV.
The picture quality is amazing. The colors are bright and vibrant, and really makes watching stuff on it a joy. The image quality is as good as anything I've seen before. The contrast is equally impressive. When I turn off all the lights in the room and put up a black screen, even with the backlight turned all the way up, it is not immediately noticable the TV is still on. If you concentrate you can see a very faint dark blue glow - remember, this is in a completely pitch-black room.
Now, there are several AV modes, which can be changed by a button on the bottom portion of the remote (flip the cover up). These modes drastically change the way the TV works; i.e. they don't seem to be simple 'profiles' as I tried copying all the settings from one mode to another and they still looked different. There are 7 or so modes, but I only use 2 or 3. The picture definitly looks the best on the 'dynamic' mode, HOWEVER there is a noticable input lag. This lag is present in all of the other AV modes except for the gaming mode. I cannot perceive any input lag in the gaming mode at all. As a proficient Stepmania/DDR player, I used it to try to gauge the input lag. With the gaming mode, the TV probably has less of an input lag than the laptop's own screen I was using to run the game. With the other modes, I measured a lag of about 100-160ms.
Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, but the image quality of the gaming mode compared to the dynamic mode is pretty large. The image looks faded and dull - now, this is in comparison; the image still looks very good, but nowhere near as good as on dynamic mode. That being said, you'll still want to run your games in the gaming mode because of the delay, but it also comes in handy in other situations. For example, if you are watching a movie from a computer but are using headphones plugged directly into that computer, the lag between the audio and the video might be noticable.
The TV comes with a stand which is solid, but it can't swivel or tilt the TV, so if you need that you will need to buy a wall mount or something. Also, be aware the TV weights 44 pounds or something - it's probably a very good idea to have a friend help you set it up.
The only true con I can think of is that you'll probably throw your DVD collection away and start buying blu-rays since DVD quality movies will look so horrible when compared with full HD videos.
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