Buy at your own risk!!!
Written: Jul 02 '09 (Updated Jul 02 '09)
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Pros: Good picture | Light Weight | Great Price for the features
Cons: QAM tuner does not work | Sharp Aquos Support is terrible
The Bottom Line: Cheap price for 1080p Aquos in 32 in. Get it if you won't be using the QAM for HD channels. If not, then STAY AWAY!
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| Thorin's Full Review: Sharp LC-32E67U 32 in. TV |
I purchased this Sharp from Electronics-Expo to replace my 32 in. Samsung that started to have dead pixels after 2 years.
The price was great, under $600, it had 1080p resolution and AQUOS generally have great picture, lots of inputs, HDMI, component, PC.When I finally got the TV, that's where all the problems happened.Let me explain a few things. This was to be our bedroom TV, so we were not going to hook it up to a cable box to get all the premium or HD channels on digital cable. You can get basic HD channels through the line, just like from the Air, just with out an antenna. The regular non-HD channels were found and came through fine. The HD channels however were broken up, both sound and video. It was so bad that the TV said it couldn't receive a signal. There's a little diagnostic tool in the menu of the TV to tell the signal strength for the digital channel. For the Sharp, anything over 80 was a good signal. However it was saying the signal strength was in the 30s out of 100. So I called up my cable company, and they sent someone to come out and check the lines. Nope, definitely not the lines. I called Sharp Customer Service and they do not have a fix for the problem as of July, 2009. They can't figure out what is wrong with their QAM tuner on the E67U series TVs. From my research of reading some other web forums, it seem the tuner has a problem with the handshake of the digital signal.
Something else that I found out recently about the TV. There are no DVI to HDMI inputs. That means, if you have a DVD player that outputs to DVI, you cannot get audio from the TV because the DVI signal from the DVD player gets converted to HDMI and only carries Video. Alot of other TVs allow for at least 1 input to have audio (red and white cable) for 1 HDMI input. That means you'll have to upgrade your DVD player now too. That totally sucks.
The menu system is very easy to get around in. The audio is ok. The video looks great. I would get this TV for a kids room perhaps, for video games or something. The attraction was the price really. It's not really necessary for a 32" TV to have 1080p since it's really not noticeable from 720p. But at $600, and it came with 1080p, why not. Other 720p TVs cost about the same if not more.
Had I known that I was going to experience these 2 big issues, I would have gone back and repurchased a Samsung for $100 more. That would have been totally worth my time and effort that I've put into this for the past month. And it's still going.
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Amount Paid (US$): 600
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