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 Built to last as long as the warranty August 3, 2010
Ellen D. Flynn (Beaufort SC United States)
I bought this television for my bedroom. It looked great out of the box and was easy to set up. Last week, a year and a half since I bought it the screen went white. I called Sharp and they said "sorry, it is out of warranty". I took it to a Sharp authorized repair shop and they diagnosed it as having bad Front Panel and not worth fixing! The parts and labor are more than the set. I have had a Sony Wega for 8 years and never had 5 minutes of trouble. How can a set last only a year and a half.....Oh, by the way, it is made in Thailand!DON'T BUY THIS TV!
Sound quality sucks! Support sucks more! June 5, 2010
C. O'driscoll (Colton, OR United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this set a year ago. I have little problem with the video quality, and it has more inputs than most folks will ever use. Only ONE output-digital (no earphone output, no standard analogue output so one could connect to an amplifier to make up for the fact that there is NO VOLUME in the audio). Wrote to the mfr four times, one response said "no, there is no other output available for your set." The end.
Normal broadcast channels can usually be heard, unless they are in HD, then the volume all but disappears, with the volume maxed out. It is a useful monitor, but I cannot even get it to link to my digital computer sound system without bunches of adapters, and then it is out of phase with the picture. Junk. Run!
 Shadowed picture March 28, 2010
Natalia
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This TV is mounted 6' off the floor in our bedroom. Unless you are looking at it straight on, the picture is shadowed resembling 35mm negatives. Have adjusted brightness and contrast with no positive result and the troubleshooting guide does not address this issue.
 Great TV for small room January 5, 2010
J. Green (Richmond, VA)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
We received this TV as a gift and have just mounted it in the corner of our workout room using the Peerless PA740 Articulating Wall Mount for 22" to 40" Displays. The TV is mounted right in front of an exercise bike, and the 26" size is perfect for that location (we had considered the 22" size). The sound volume works for us, but my husband would prefer it to be louder if that were an option. The sound is loud enough to hear very well over the noise of an exercise bike when turned to maximum. I will need to see if there are separate speakers I can buy and mount on the tv somehow. There are audio outputs on the TV - digital coaxial and red and white rca. So far we have only used it for DVDs, and it works perfectly. The picture quality looks great even from side angles and from different heights (although the image dims when I look at it when sitting on the floor). We are very happy with the picture quality.
EDIT
We have hooked the TV to our cable line (directly, with no box), and are happy with how the TV works for watching cable. I don't notice slow channel changing.
I'm still trying to decide whether to add external speakers. I purchased an 2 x RCA Male / 1 x 3.5mm Stereo Female, Y-Cable, 6 inch, plugged it into the RCA output on the TV, and attached it to some old computer speakers. That worked well, so I'm considering trying to buy some smaller computer speakers that I can somehow attach to the TV, which is wall mounted. Note that the speakers have to have their own power cord (some speakers out there attach via usb and no powercord, and that style would not work for this tv).
SHARP REALLY DELIVERS! January 5, 2010
Lavella Medford (New Mexico)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I just got this TV/DVD combo for my bedroom. The picture quality is excellent, as is ease of use and sound quality. I have a 40" Sony Bravia Z series and the picture on the Sharp is much brighter than on the Sony coming in on the same cable system. The TV is also easy to program and very light weight. So far, all dvd's I've played are great - (both picture and sound), which is one of the main reasons I chose this Sharp unit. An equivalent Sansui also had good reviews and pricing, but I was reluctant to buy a foreign brand with apparently very little, if any, support service. I don't know much about the technical aspects of TV's, but this one seems to have everything anyone would want in this size set, including use as a PC monitor. I haven't tried it with headphones yet, but plan to. One of the other reviewers panned this TV due to the time it takes to change channels, but I haven't found this to be a problem. Overall, I am very happy with my purchase, delivery time was excellent and I feel the pricing was competitive. This is a great TV/DVD combo in 26" size! In fact, I almost wish I had bought a 40" Sharp instead of the really pricey 40" Sony Bravia!
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