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Great Picture (2009-04-27)
Very good TV for the price. I am a recent retiree, and I watch the History Channel etc, but I also have a Playstation 3. The TV handles all of the challenges placed before it very well. My hat is off to Sharp for a job well done.

Great price for a flat panel (2009-01-18)
This is my first LCD Flat Panel TV. I upgraded from a 24" CRT Flat Screen by Toshiba.

Pros:

1. Great Picture (It's only 720p but the picture comes through great and is a big improvement over a regular TV)
2. Smart Stretch setting: this allows one to watch regular TV in widescreen and nothing looks distorted.
3. Inexpensive: I can't afford an expensive flat panel HDTV so this was a great choice for me

Cons:

1. This set has awful sound. I hooked up a Bose CineMate system to it and that fixed this problem. No matter what you hook up to it, you will need to attach some speakers to make watching this TV bearable.
2. No option to turn off the internal speaker. This was an issue when setting up my external speakers. Turning the volume all the way down was a good workaround, though.


I've only had the set for about a day, so, there may be more pros & cons but, overall, this set is a huge improvement over my CRT set and did not make me go broke!

Good tv for the money (2008-12-01)
Great TV for the bedroom or office (i have it in corner of my office). Good 6ms refresh time is pretty fast. There are faster tv's out there but not in this price range. Given that it is a 32 inch tv, picture seems very good even though it is only 720p. I don't think you would build a home theater around this TV but is great TV for smaller spaces.

Dud (2008-11-16)
I only had this television for a week before I returned it.

Pros:
No dead pixels.
Standard-definition video looked good.
Cheap price for a 32" HDTV that's not from a low-end brand.

Cons:
Speakers have no bass, and squeal and vibrate in loud settings.
Changing channels up and down took too long, and the time to enter in numbers for a specific channel was too short.
1080i video sometimes wasn't deinterlaced properly.
Occasionally when I turned it on, the TV shut itself off, then on, sometimes repeatedly. This was the main reason that I had to return it.