The LC-40LE600E has just enough shortcomings, especially in the motion handling department, to fetch it up short of earning an unreserved TrustedReviews recommendation. But actually, we'd still urge you to at least seek one out to audition, for when the right sort of source material enables its LED engine to fire on all cylinders, its pictures really do look outstanding. It's nice, too, in these times where TV/screen brands are dropping like flies, to find that on the evidence of the LC-40LE600E, Sharp is anything but a spent LCD force.Read full review
This is a perfect example, to all you readers out there, why you should always read the whole of a review before making a judegement (and commenting ;) ). Were one to simple look at the scores and read the verdict, you may think to pass this TV by. However, this TV actually perfectly fits my, and I'm sure many other people's, requirements perfectly. You see, I can't stand the other artifacts that result from adding motion compensation technology (like 100Hz) into LCD TVs. I also have no need for more than three HDMI inputs, nor online bits and bobs, or fancy speakers. I want a screen that produces great pictures, end of story, and for an LCD panel this sounds like it would be as good as I could get for the price. Of course, ideally I'd just get a plasma panel as they have far fewer motion problems in the first place but that's a whole other story. Anyway, just a few thoughts I felt like adding.
@Ed, you had to go and pour petrol on the fire and mention the plasma word ;) Though, I do agree with you. For £800 I would get a 42" 1080p plasma any day.....There, that should get the debate flowing!
This is a lovely display. If you want style then go for the Samsung LED edge-lit displays. I rejected the Samsung because they don't have headphone jacks! If set correctly, the colour & contrast levels are very CRT like. White levels are amazingly 'white' compared to typical CCFL LCDs.
I have the 700E version although I can't tell the difference with it switch on or off. Perhaps it needs highly-animated images to work?
Would have been useful to have a PIP feature although I'm planning to install a PC TV card.
The EPG seems a bit busy but well formatted.
Overall, an excellent display but slightly pricey.
For me the main problem here is at ~£800 this competes directly with the cheaper Panasonic NeoPDP plasma sets and I just can't help thinking you're getting more for your money over in the plasma camp. That said, I don't think I've seen a side-by-side review of the newer technologies (Panasonic NeoPDP versus this Sharp's Backlit LED tech versus Samsung's edge-lit LED stuff) and it'd be really nice if a site such as, oh, say... this one could maybe get these newer, mid-range units together and give us a comprehensive overview.
Do have to agree with Ed though, I wish manufacturers produced no-frills models. I've got a HDMI-equipped Denon amp feeding all my signals via a single HDMI cable and, of course, taking care of audio too. What I really want is a simple panel without tuners, ethernet, USB etc etc of the quality you'd normally get at, say, £1,000 but with a couple of hundred off for the lack of extras. Lovely.
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if only panasonic would hear BOFH_UK's pleas, and make a panasonic z1, without the unnecessary wireless box, and speakers, and (for me, personally) be painted anodized green. with a fish tank screen saver, and costing no more than £800.
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@BOFH_UK and ilovethemonkeyhead; amen to that as unfortunately the only other option is the high end route offered by panasonics professional range of plasmas and planars lcds
@ffrankmccaffery (boy that's tricky to type correctly!) - ah yes, the high end of panasonics range, the only TV's on the market that come with a pre-paid organ 'donation' bag in the box... :D Thing is, I've got to believe that there's a reasonable market for a mid range stand-alone panel right now. Not, possibly, something that they're going to sell in-store but as an internet-only item for those looking for the best possible picture for the money when you've already got a TV receiver, Blu-Ray deck and decent sound system? Surely that'd shift some units?
Actually, one thing from the review that I meant to comment on and forgot - could TV manufacturers also start includng a couple of user defined presets mapped to a single button? More and more of us route everything in via a single HDMI lead, this makes it a massive pain in the arse when you need to shift to, for example, a 'game' mode. The only thing I use my TV remote for now is putting it in and out of standby, that's it. It's so annoying having to grab it and work through a few layers of menus to hit 'game', especially if I've just put on a blu-ray movie, turned the lights on, got the popcorn ready and realised, as soon as the film actually starts, that I've forgotten to turn game mode off again...
I completely agree with your described TV - in fact, my ideal TV would be a large, excellent-quality panel with a remote: basically a monitor with IR receiver. I don't want inbuilt speakers, because any savvy cinema fan will have a separate sound system, inputs can be handled by an AV receiver (which you can buy with the money saved by not including this circuitry on the TV) and I personally don't care about tuners though that's probably a rarity.
As to your settings problem, have you considered getting something like one of the Logitech Harmony remotes {like the http://www.trustedreviews.com/home-cinema/review/2009/06/14/Logitech-Harmony-1100-Universal-Remote/p1} to handle all of that automatically at the touch of a single button?
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"It's also a relief that the 40LE600E looks largely free of direct LED's haloing problem, where the relatively low number of LED arrays versus pixels in the picture can lead to bright picture elements spreading across more of the picture than they're supposed to."
Isn't this problem related to Local Dimming rather than LED lighting ? Since the LE600 does not have Local Dimming, it would make sense that it doesn't have this problem ^^.
Good review though, I'm definitely considering buying a 40LE700... I Hope the 100Hz will reduce the motion blur.
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Adding to my earlier comment i dont think its really only us niche buyers that are in favour of pure display panels. Over half the televisions i see are fed through a external tuner box from either sky, virgin media or another make. For them too the built-in tuner is redundant. As for speakers im sure this current obsession amongst manufacturers for thinness is limiting the quality of speaker cones the can be fitted inside the chassis.
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