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Sharp Aquos LC52D64U 52-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sharp
Category: CE
List Price: $2,299.99
Buy Used: $1,451.67
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 52
Shipping Weight (lbs): 75
Dimensions (in): 48.8 x 12.8 x 32.9
nv:Display Area: 52"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Contrast Ratio: 10000:1
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Signal Compatibility: 480i, 480p , 720p , 1080i
Signal Compatibility: 1080p
Input Video Signal: ATSC
Input Video Signal: NTSC
Inputs: S-Video
Inputs: PC
Inputs: Audio
Inputs: Composite
Inputs: RS-232 Communication
Inputs: HDMI In
Inputs: Component
Power Consumption: 215W
Dimensions With Stand: 48.7" x 32.9" x 12.8"
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: LC52D64U
Model: LC52D64U
UPC: 074000370470
EAN: 0074000370470
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 52" HDTV LCD-TV with Full HD 1080p resolution | | • | 10,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio | | • | 4ms Response Time | | • | RS-232C Input for control |
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Product Description
Once again, Sharp, a leader in LCD technology, establishes a new design standard for LCD TVs. With a screen size class of 52", the AQUOS LC-52D64U raises the bar by fitting large screen sizes into incredibly small footprints. By changing the layout of circuits inside the LCD panel and by reducing the number of parts, Sharp engineers developed the Slim-line design, which reduces depth by 25%, allowing placement of the LC-52D64U in virtually any setting. The LC-52D64U utilizes Sharp's proprietary Advanced Super View / Black TFT Panel with multi-pixel technology, providing 10,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio with Enhanced Picture Contrast Technology and 4ms response time. The LC-52D64U features built-in ATSC/QAM/NTSC tuners and includes 3 HDMI (version 1.3) inputs, compatible with 1080p signals, a PC input and 2 HD component video inputs. Side terminals are included for wall-mounting convenience as well as RS-232C input for control.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Fluorescent tube banding during uniform scenes continues November 7, 2007
72 out of 96 found this review helpful
The store has 52" Sony's W3000 and XBR4, Samsung's 71F, and Sharp's 64 together and next to 50" Panasonic and Samsung plasmas. The four LCDs were set to "cinema" mode (significantly lower brightness and color saturation for home viewing than the "vivid" mode for store sales ... be sure to check before buying and even better try using something like CNET's calibration settings which I tried on the Sony LCDs) and the Panasonic was briefly set to "cinema." My impressions are:
Sharp -- with factory calibrations, Sharp had the best shadow details (less "black crush," like seeing dark hair instead of "paint-by-number" hair, clothing texture and patterns, tree bark, shadow scenes, etc., but this difference could only be due to different factory calibrations), color less saturated (but maybe accurate and again the difference maybe due to factory calibrations), and black more of a gray (although the CNET post-calibration review liked its color accuracy, black level, and the TV except for banding). Unfortunately, fluorescent tube banding is still shamefully present (look for it on uniform scenes like blue sky or text commercials ... it is not noticeable with non-uniform scenes). I have noticed banding on 5/7 of these 64 models. Consumer Reports and CNET report that Sharp's '07 and '08 models have banding (as do some AVS forum users), so bad for Sharp not to resolve this on their '08 model. A salesman noted Sharp's 84 and 94 models would arrive in mid-December, so since Sharp is missing part of the important fourth quarter sales maybe the delay is to resolve banding on these models? If it was not for banding, I would buy this due to its good shadow detail, design form, and cost (especially since LED LCDs will probably render 52" fluorescent LCDs obsolete next year by offering a true black and better colors and OLEDs will render both obsolete by 2012).
Sony W3000 -- factory calibration dark details were second best and a good black level. Using CNET's XRB4 calibration settings, the shadow detail was like the Sharp. Because of cost and Sharp's banding, this a good option.
XBR4 and 71 -- factory calibrated dark details were the worse, but after CNET's calibrations the XBR4 appeared similar to the Sharp. I did not try calibrating the Samsung, but CNET notes their post-calibrated review of Samsung's 65 has good shadow detail. Factory-calibrated black levels are very good, but this maybe the reason for poor shadow details. Regarding the 120 Hz, my non-techie understanding is it improves high-definition disc movies' 24 frame-per-second (FPS) "judder" (jerkiness) that occurs with 60 Hz TVs since fitting 24 FPS into 60 Hz requires some frames to be repeated 2 x and others 3 x. With a 120 Hz TV, each of the 24 FPS can be repeated 5 x (e.g., 24 x 5 = 120), thus no judder. I believe broadcast TV is 30 FPS, where frames can be repeated 2 x to fit a 60 Hz TV without judder. LCD 120 Hz, to my knowledge per expert reviews, has nothing to do with improving motion blur contrary to promotional hype.
Plasmas -- did not observe long and mostly on "vivid." Factory-calibrated shadow detail is bad, but it has good black levels. Panasonic's 750 was briefly set to "cinema," and in the dark Magnolia showroom its brightness level was too dim for me.
 An amazing large LCD screen that's stellar when it's fed the right signals!!!! October 16, 2007
68 out of 70 found this review helpful
I purchased the Sharp LC52D64U via a direct promotion with Sharp USA. The deal I was offered was too good to pass up. I have never bought a large format TV in my life and always got by with a Sony CRT 27" in my bedroom running SD TV. I was just fine with that for many years and when I moved into a new apartment with a nice big (and empty) living room and ordered HD cable, I decided to consider purchasing a large HD panel TV.
When I did my research, I was overwhelmed at the number of choices, formats and connections types, such as LCD, plasma, projection, 720i, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, Hdmi, HD channels recievers....argh!?!?!?!
Well after I did enough research, this Sharp LCD has everything that I need for at least the next 5 years. I am running a Tivo Series 3 HD reciever pumping 1080i HD channels over digital cable into one of the 3 available HDMI ports. The image quality is, to say the least, MAGNIFICENT!!!! The deep blacks and rich colors really cut through exceptionally well. I have not yet played an HD DVD or Blu-Ray movie through it, but if the 1080i HD channels look this great, I can only expect the same from watching Spiderman 3 on Bluray at 1080P when it's available this late October.
When I was researching large format panel TV's, my eye kept going to plasmas like Panasonics and the Elite series from Pioneer. Suffice it to say, these brands were very much out of my budget and consdered LCD's instead. So I did some research on the Aqous series and found alot of useful information. I also read many reports of the Sharp Aquos series suffering from a bad phenomenom known as "banding" and a recent review of the LC52D64U on cnet.com indicated that the problem was still present in this new model. This made me nervous about buying the TV, but then I reminded myself that those reviewers have eyes like a hawk and scrutinize every little detail that an average consumer (like me) probably wouldn't even notice until pointed out.
Well I don't know if I can't see it, or if it is not present in my particular unit, but I have NOT experienced any "banding" issues that may appear as color bleed, ghosting effects or ongoing pixilation.
Sharp does offer Aquos models that have a higher refresh rate as much at 120 hertz. This unit, I believe, operates at a 60 hertz refresh rate. The higher 120 refresh rate is supposed to handle fast moving images (such as football player running across a field) and improve the image so as to reduce any bluriness or undesireable pixilation.
Well I do not watch alot of sports, so this is not a deal breaker for me. There were a few times I was watching a movie and saw some pixilation occurring due to fast moving images. But as long as you watch your 52" sharp LCD from a practical viewing distance and loose yourself in the entertainment and not scrutinize every single image that's on the screen, you probably won't notice it when it does occur, if at all.
Overall, I am extremely pleased with the Sharp LC52D64U. Remember that to get the most out of this LCD panel, be prepared to spend some money and feed it a high resolution data feed for both audio and video. Everything I am sending it comes in at full 1080i/1080P, if not upscaled from 720/480. I plan to get the new X-Box 360 elite and it has an HDMI output port and many of the newer games run at 1080P, so I can only imagine that there's more visual pleasure to come my way.
I hope this non-technical review was helpful. Now go out and buy this damn thing and be a happy couch potato!!! :-)
 Warning: TV size 32'' or GREATER CANNOT be returned for exchange!!! May 25, 2008
32 out of 43 found this review helpful
Just want to warn everyone that once the TV is in your hands, YOU cannot returned it back for an exchange even if the product is defective.
I just bought a LC52D64U 52-inch 1080p TV From Amazon---[...]. When delivered, I had inspected the TV and saw no physical damage and signed the delivery document.
Once I put it in my living room and hooked it up the power, I found that the screen was dark without any signal and there is no sound. The product was defective right out of the box and I cannot return it for an exchange. I have to call Sharp to get someone to fix it.
It is likely that it will take about a month to get it fixed. NOW I am stuck with it. I am not even sure if the TV was real brand new.
Sharp Aquos LC52D64U 52-inch 1080p LCD HDTV
In the future, I will never buy anything from vendors if it is not exchangeable in case the product is defective!!!
Update: today is 6/4/2008, the TV is still in repair shop!!
Excellent set! November 27, 2007
30 out of 34 found this review helpful
We didn't buy from Vanns, but have been enjoying this set at home for four days now. We haven't experienced the banding that others have complained about -- and I have been very vigilant looking for it. Set-up was fairly straightforward. The stand is gratifyingly solid. Connecting cables for inputs 1 & 2 was a little more difficult than I expected, the angle you hold the connectors is really important, much more so than on other sets -- although once done, everything is nice and tight. One nice surprise so far: the built-in speakers sound much better than I expected.
The picture is gorgeous. Even DVDs from an old non-progressive scan player are excellent (the progressive scan player I ordered arrives today). We watched Monday Night Football in 1080i and newscasts in 1080i, the image quality and detail were amazing. I didn't realize before what nice clothes the anchors wear!
We're very happy so far. We'll see how we feel in a few months.
 the bottom line on the sharp lc52d64 January 17, 2008
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
Read this entire review , it will clarify a lot for you with the facts.
Excellent physical design with minimal bezel around screen and also very slim depth and light weight making it as ideal as possible for wall mounting. Excellent anti reflective screen, always clear and vivid in all room lighting. Descent sound and picture factory settings~ easily rectified and improved with adjustment to the settings. Great picture quality overall especially in HD, I enjoy watching the TV with an HD dvd player hdmi connectivity and an HD dvd the most, its also fun connecting my laptop to it with its VGA input. I have written a previous review of this set elsewhere, all in line with the very words in this review only this time regret to have to add that I have noticed the notorious banding issue on the screen. keep in mind that in 80-90% of the scenes you'll watch you wont see the banding, only superb contrast ratio and excellent response time/processing of all content. However, the banding does occur in scenes where camera moves horizontally or diagonally over a large span. for example when watching the planet earth HD DVD and seeing the camera pan or tilt over a long landscape I also saw the horizontal bands like thin thin barely there but there whitish lines across the screen. In spit of all that, i love the TV because again the banding is rare and all other scenes including the speed and rapid movements in a action movie or the color and clarity of the details in a rainforest while watching a documentary this TV does a excellent job. Overall, if you can put up with the banding in those shots where the camera filming a shot scanning a tall building from bottom to top or a wide landscape, This TV is a super cool and modern looking TV. Aquos branded with all the bells and whistles including 1080p and all the connectivity you can ask for. Almost near future proof only lacking 120hz refresh rate which I found not to be necessary at all with this unit. Bottom line, I plan on keeping my TV, every guest that has been over and seen the TV in action love it and want one for themselves.
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