FEATURED Sharp LC-80LE757 80-inch Aquos Quattron 1080p 240Hz Smart LED 3D HDTV
- QUATTRON Color Technology: Exclusive Quattron color technology delivers a billion more colors, so you get a more powerful picture with brighter yellows, deeper blues, and richer golds. By adding 2 million yellow subpixels, Quattron creates a more realistic picture with greater detail and brightness – a feat that standard TV simply can’t achieve.
- AQUOS 1080p LED Display: Using photo-alignment technology that’s precision crafted to let more light through in bright scenes and shut more light out in dark scenes, the AQUOS 1080p LED Display with a 4 million: 1 contrast ratio creates a picture so real you can see the difference.
- 240Hz Refresh Rate with AquoMotion 480: See sharper, more electrifying action with the most advanced panel refresh rates available today. AquoMotion, Sharp’s backlight scanning technology, doubles the effective refresh rate to hit you with all the power that fast-moving sports and movies can deliver.
- SmartCentral Smart TV with Dual-Core Processor & built in Wi-Fi: Sharp®’s intuitive Smart TV lets you quickly connect to your favorite content and instantly access apps like Facebook®, Twitter®, and YouTube®, plus streaming movies, music, games, and websites you love.
- Slim Design: The brilliant AQUOS® LED display is embraced by a striking new frame that’s thinner around the screen and slimmer in depth, so it can fit just about anywhere.
Picture quality off the intensity chart. The LC-80LE757U is an LED Smart TV that features Sharp’s proprietary Quattron color technology for a billion more colors, so images explode with vibrant detail and brighter yellows, deeper blues, and richer golds. The LC-80LE757U also features a 10 million: 1 dynamic contrast ratio and a 240Hz refresh rate for advanced clarity during fast-motion scenes. A Smart TV with with Dual-Core processor and built-in WiFi, the LC-80LE757U lets you quickly access apps, streaming movies, music, games, and websites.
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Barry J. White
August 6, 2013
matte screen,
The most important fact you need to know about this TV is that it is a matte screen. None of the manufacturers seem to publish this important detail for some reason. You have to see for yourself or read reviews to figure it out. If you have any windows in the room with your TV, this will likely be the most important feature of your TV. Unfortunately, Sharp is one of the only manufacturers still using matte screens on their large tvs. I believe that is because there is a slight penalty to pay with contrast, but if you have windows around, the glare wouldn’t allow you to see any contrast difference between matte and glossy screen. I will admit Samsung glossy screens now have a very good filter on most of their models that would rate a distant second to this sharp for reducing glare. I hope manufacturers will go back to matte as most TVs will be placed in a room with light, not a black theatre room.
I gave four stars because I had the exact same impression as another reviewer regarding artifacts. The “soap opera effect” is terrible, especially if you use the ?480 hz refresh. If you bump it down to the lowest refresh, the effect is minimized. I was also aghast at how terrible a golf ball looks flying across the screen. This too was diminished after adjusting refresh but there are still artifacts.
Setting up color, contrast,etc…
I’ve had some problems here. I used the Disney WOW blu-ray to adjust these settings. Worked like a champ on my old LG (I would have purchased another one, but they are glossy now). However, when I set up this set and go back to HD TV (uverse) everything is way too yellow. I’m not sure if it’s a problem with my setup or the television. Maybe we can see good settings published from the other reviewer or cnet soon. For now I’m using the “auto” function and it seems to work reasonably well without too much backlight and other typical off the shelf settings problems designed to wow in a showroom.
Screen uniformity
This sharp outperforms my old LG (47lw5600) in this department. I don’t see bright or dim areas across the screen like the LG. Seems to be a higher quality panel. I also had lots of bleed from light and dark areas on the LG which are minimal on the Sharp. That sort of effect used to drive me crazy watching certain movies like star trek or harry potter franchise on the LG.
Oh, there is no Amazon loaded onto the apps for this TV. I have to use my panasonic bluray player to access amazon prime on demand movies. Might be a deal breaker for some. Hopefully, they will add that service in the future.
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|P. Derrow
August 6, 2013
Great picture… as long as you get the settings right,
When I first turned on this set I thought the picture quality and color saturation were simply stunning…but. While watching our first well-produced drama program and then a golf broadcast, problems soon became apparent. Even though I’m reasonably well versed in TV set-up, were it not for our professional installer, I’m fairly sure I would have put this 140 lb set back in the box and shipped it back.
The problems were all the result of original factory settings that enabled virtually all of the image “enhancement” processing. On drama programming, it gave the image a fake appearance that I initially thought was the result of a guest director using different camera and production methods. When the same problem appeared on all similar types of programming, and particularly noticeable with HD content, It was clear the problem was with the TV.
The problem with the golf broadcast was the presence of motion artifacts, particularly noticeable when the ball was moving rapidly across the screen. Motion artifacts are still more noticeable with LED technology compared to plasma, but a set like this one with its higher (240Hz) processing rate should be very close to plasma. With the factory settings, the motion artifact of the moving golf ball displayed as a trail nearly 4″ long ending with a second ball image!.
After disabling virtually all of the enhancements, adjusting the brightness, contrast, color saturation and various other elements, the picture is as awesome as I expected in a set like this, hence the 4 star rating since a TV is really all about the picture.. If I could I’d give it a 5 stars after set-up and 1 for the hassle of doing so. The matte glass of an LED set is still far superior in high ambient light applications compared with plasma sets and I also like the thin black bezel of this Sharp TV better than the silver or chrome bezel of most other sets.
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