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I was invited to a "public unveiling" of Sharp's new Elite TV at a local A/V store last night, and I thought I would share my initial impressions with the community.
For starters there should be some background on the TV:
They had fool's gold showing on it when I saw the demo and the biggest thing Jamieson's staff was trying to show is that the black levels on this unit can rival that of most plasmas. So I'll have to base my initial impressions off of that movie and the small 5 minute tech demo blu ray they showed.
So for starters, the black levels were good. The salesman said it was better than plasmas, which I find hard to believe since plasmas have no backlight therefore they can get true black, but it was a very good black with almost zero light bleeding from around the edges. The whites were equally as impressive with no blue hue to them that you run into in the <$3000 TVs (precalibrated at least). The TV's shining achievement was its ability to produce extremely accurate color representation with very good vibrancy without over-saturation that a lot of LCDs struggle with. The skin tones on the characters were spot on, water was the right kind of blue etc, etc... And despite its mammoth 70" size, it did not have any bluriness. The picture was very sharp and clear and almost appeared like it had depth within the TV itself more than likely because of its stellar representation of colors.
As we continued watching the movies something began to strike me as odd. For anyone that has a TV with image smoothing (such as Samsung's automotion plus feature or another company's comparable feature) you will understand what I am going to describe. The image of anything moving appeared like it had been put into slow motion but then sped back up to normal season. I felt like it had a very bad motion processing thing on, but the rep told me that all the features were turned off. So that leaves one of two explanations: he was wrong, or this TV is terrible for anything that moves. In addition to the unnatural looking movements, there were also some serious ghosting issues that I noticed. One of the characters had dred-locks and each time he moved his head he appeared to have 4,5 and sometimes 6 separate sets of dred-locks. I typically exaggerate my things, but the glaring response time issues are not being exaggerated. Motion blur would render this TV just about useless for gaming or any high-motion movie. Another issue that I noticed were input lag. It could have been caused by their set-up but at times I would estimate the lip-sync delay to be at ~20-30ms. It seems like the TV was trying to do too much processing and held the image up to much before displaying it.
These are just my personal opinions on the TV but I wanted to share them with you all and see if any of you have any other thoughts on it.
In summary
The Great
The Good
The Bad
The Ugly
All in all for the price that this TV is commanding I expected A LOT more performance out of it than what was perceived. Especially when there was a Panasonic 65" plasma for $3,500 in another room that was matching everything but the phenomenal colors (still dang good though). I left feeling like there was a lot more that the Elite TV line could have lived up to than what they showed for their coming out party.
Overall rating 6.5/10
For starters there should be some background on the TV:
- It is being manufactured by Sharp who hired on a lot of Pioneer's engineers after the Elite line was discontinued 2-3 years ago
- It comes in 2 sizes of 70" ($8,000) and 60" ($5,500)
- It has added a yellow subpixel in addition to the standard RGB sub pixels to give more accurate color representations
- It is claimed by Sharp that its processor allows it to go beyond a 240hz refresh rate
- It is 3d capable
- It is a full LED array backlight divided out to over 100 subgrids for better levels of backlight leveling
They had fool's gold showing on it when I saw the demo and the biggest thing Jamieson's staff was trying to show is that the black levels on this unit can rival that of most plasmas. So I'll have to base my initial impressions off of that movie and the small 5 minute tech demo blu ray they showed.
So for starters, the black levels were good. The salesman said it was better than plasmas, which I find hard to believe since plasmas have no backlight therefore they can get true black, but it was a very good black with almost zero light bleeding from around the edges. The whites were equally as impressive with no blue hue to them that you run into in the <$3000 TVs (precalibrated at least). The TV's shining achievement was its ability to produce extremely accurate color representation with very good vibrancy without over-saturation that a lot of LCDs struggle with. The skin tones on the characters were spot on, water was the right kind of blue etc, etc... And despite its mammoth 70" size, it did not have any bluriness. The picture was very sharp and clear and almost appeared like it had depth within the TV itself more than likely because of its stellar representation of colors.
As we continued watching the movies something began to strike me as odd. For anyone that has a TV with image smoothing (such as Samsung's automotion plus feature or another company's comparable feature) you will understand what I am going to describe. The image of anything moving appeared like it had been put into slow motion but then sped back up to normal season. I felt like it had a very bad motion processing thing on, but the rep told me that all the features were turned off. So that leaves one of two explanations: he was wrong, or this TV is terrible for anything that moves. In addition to the unnatural looking movements, there were also some serious ghosting issues that I noticed. One of the characters had dred-locks and each time he moved his head he appeared to have 4,5 and sometimes 6 separate sets of dred-locks. I typically exaggerate my things, but the glaring response time issues are not being exaggerated. Motion blur would render this TV just about useless for gaming or any high-motion movie. Another issue that I noticed were input lag. It could have been caused by their set-up but at times I would estimate the lip-sync delay to be at ~20-30ms. It seems like the TV was trying to do too much processing and held the image up to much before displaying it.
These are just my personal opinions on the TV but I wanted to share them with you all and see if any of you have any other thoughts on it.
In summary
The Great
- Color recreation was the best I've ever seen on a TV
- Images seemed to have depth even in 2d mode
The Good
- Black Levels
The Bad
- Price
- Input Lag
The Ugly
- Motion Blur
- Horrible image processing making the movements seem very unnatural
All in all for the price that this TV is commanding I expected A LOT more performance out of it than what was perceived. Especially when there was a Panasonic 65" plasma for $3,500 in another room that was matching everything but the phenomenal colors (still dang good though). I left feeling like there was a lot more that the Elite TV line could have lived up to than what they showed for their coming out party.
Overall rating 6.5/10
