Official Sharp AQUOS LC-80LE632U Owners Thread - Page 44

Originally Posted by rohrbaughra

The display looks great, even in the afternoon with the south-facing window behind the set and a bay window and two large windows on the side. The 80" appears to be as bright as the (4 month old) 70" 733 model it replaced and a 70" Sony XBR2 prior to that, and both of those sets were also fairly bright.

Originally Posted by kdavis220

Awesome...glad to hear it. Excited about getting one now, even more so...

Just gotta figure out how much a healthy lung and a kidney could go for...

Originally Posted by FltTester

You ought to consider an Ideal-Lume light for nighttime viewing. Because of the size of this set, I had to use two lamps behind it, but the 6500K fluorescent light (ideally set for 10% of the set's all white screen output) eases eye fatigue vs. a completely dark room and supposedly also improves apparent contrast. I love mine! You can find it here:

http://www.cinemaquestinc.com/

Originally Posted by Suzook

I agree with you 1000 percent but....here is the problem I have with the product. A few years back when sets were bulkier and mounts had larger spacing you could easily fit these. Now with shallow depths and slim mounts its impossible. My 80 is .55 from the wall so these wont work.

Second, they havent updated these in at least 5 years. With the progress led lights are making you would think IL would have some new options in led for reduced size and power consumption. The bulbs also do not last nearly the rated life and cannot be bought locally

Listen I think its a great product and I highly recommend bias lighting but its high time for led

Originally Posted by Fastslappy


I got some CCFL 6" & 12" in three colors I'm gonna experiment with them .. they are left overs from when I was building PC Gaming Rigs for the Youngsters . Very thin 1/2" tube with a 1/8" bulb inside ...

Originally Posted by Suzook

Let us know how you make out. Be careful though as the led needs to be as close to 6500k as possible

Originally Posted by Suzook

I agree with you 1000 percent but....here is the problem I have with the product. A few years back when sets were bulkier and mounts had larger spacing you could easily fit these. Now with shallow depths and slim mounts its impossible. My 80 is .55 from the wall so these wont work.
Second, they havent updated these in at least 5 years. With the progress led lights are making you would think IL would have some new options in led for reduced size and power consumption. The bulbs also do not last nearly the rated life and cannot be bought locally
Listen I think its a great product and I highly recommend bias lighting but its high time for led

Originally Posted by FltTester


Yeah, I'm using a full-motion wall mount and have the set 25" from the rear wall. With a low-profile mount I suppose the lamp(s) could be placed below the set projecting upward, but that may be difficult and the uniformity of the light would probably suffer. In my case, the single IL I was using behind the previous 65" lasted eight years.
I agree, it would be great to have LEDs do the same, but I'm afraid that may be impossible because their total spectrum may be above 6500.

Originally Posted by Silverfox1

Originally Posted by Fastslappy
just got a 632 80" from US Appliance ..pulled the trigger ! $3,69X.00 free shipping

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Now that price i could live with ! I paid nearly that much for the popular Samsung A950 55" when it was being phased out.

Problem is US Appliance never has anything in Stock:

http://www.us-appliance.com/lc80le632u.html

Regards,

Originally Posted by Fastslappy

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Im confused as to why you would overpay to buy from HH. The mark up then mark down is why the brick and mortar stores are losing customers. Us Appliance will surely have them in stock again
x2. I visited Best Buy/Magnolia last night to view it for the final time to make sure. I even gave them a chance for best offer and all they could do was $4500 pre-tax.(unQuote)

I've owned several plasmas since 2004 and used them religiously. This is the first time I've been convinced to switch technology for a large flat panel display. So much so that I cancelled a Panasonic 65GT30 enroute from Amazon; it seems so small against an 80in and 3D is not a concern. Crazy that I spent $5K back in 2004 for a 50" 720P Pioneer plasma. We AVSers were all talking about how it was so affordable to go with an industrial plasma versions (vs. consumer) back then. Nice, but expensive memories.



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I'm @ home 24/7 getting over a Concussion so I'm watching the US-Appliance site & will advise as soon as I see the Display show in stock...(Unquote)
Why wait? I simply called US Appliance and placed my order. If you don't mind them charging you prior to shipping, then I don't see a problem. I'm not taking any chances on any potential price increase or availability.

The salesman noted that they have 60 on order and expect to receive at least 75% of them in ~3 weeks. He even told me my place in the backorder wait list; there are five people ahead of me and my order will be in the first batch. Three weeks (or four with shipping time) is ideal timing since I'm renovating the room. I used my AMEX card and have crazy customer protection if anything goes awry. AMEX also gives me one additional year of warranty coverage.

I asked the salesman if I could post his name on AVS for referal and he said no problems. They are accepting backorders.

Item: Sharp LC-80LE632U
Price: $3697 w/standard curbside shipping ($149 white glove)
US Appliance: (877) 628-9913
Salesman: Jason Manning

Originally Posted by Suzook

Read a few posts up. You can order a set at that price and have it filled when they come back in stocj

Originally Posted by Silverfox1

Guess im blind since i cant find the specific post you cited.

Do you have to call US Appliance direct and quote or request the price since you cant add it to the cart in their "Out of Stock" advertisement below:

http://www.us-appliance.com/lc80le632u.html

Regards,

Originally Posted by Fastslappy

it's on the 80" pricing thread I posted the links above ......

Originally Posted by Silverfox1

Thanks Mike ! I must be blind !

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showp...&postcount=204

Regards, Ron

Originally Posted by DJSloan

I returned a recently purchased Panny 65ST30 due to buzzing and "upgraded" to the 80". Calibrated everything but CMS with Calman and am happier than I thought I would be with an LCD. One quirk i noticed.

I have OPC Off and OPC range 0/+1. It seems there is a total screen dimming feature when the screen goes blank.

Screen goes blank > screen dims > screen brightens > next scene starts. I this normal? Do I have something set wrong?

Originally Posted by DJSloan

I returned a recently purchased Panny 65ST30 due to buzzing and "upgraded" to the 80". Calibrated everything but CMS with Calman and am happier than I thought I would be with an LCD. One quirk i noticed.

I have OPC Off and OPC range 0/+1. It seems there is a total screen dimming feature when the screen goes blank.

Screen goes blank > screen dims > screen brightens > next scene starts. I this normal? Do I have something set wrong?

Originally Posted by mark62

my 60 632 does the same thing, but i believe at some point it did not do this. is there a setting that causes this? i have OPC off and all the energy stuff off.

Originally Posted by billdag

BTW - I am very happy with having a 9 foot string of soft white Christmas LED's attached to the back of my set to give me some additional lighting at night. The effect is very nice. Blacks look deeper and my eyes suffer less eye strain. All this for under 20.00

Originally Posted by DJSloan

I returned a recently purchased Panny 65ST30 due to buzzing and "upgraded" to the 80". Calibrated everything but CMS with Calman and am happier than I thought I would be with an LCD. One quirk i noticed.

I have OPC Off and OPC range 0/+1. It seems there is a total screen dimming feature when the screen goes blank.

Screen goes blank > screen dims > screen brightens > next scene starts. I this normal? Do I have something set wrong?

Originally Posted by billdag

Mine does it too regardless of settings. I believe that the set automatically turns off the LED's when no signal is present and then turns them back on instantly as soon as the signal returns. I think it's a power saving feature that is well suited for the instant response of LED lighting. The effect is pretty subtle if you have a fair amount of ambient light. I don't so I noticed it pretty early on.

BTW - I am very happy with having a 9 foot string of soft white Christmas LED's attached to the back of my set to give me some additional lighting at night. The effect is very nice. Blacks look deeper and my eyes suffer less eye strain. All this for under 20.00

Originally Posted by kdavis220

Awesome reminder! I have some of those that I almost forgot about I can use once I get my set.

This = an awesome thread w/ great, helpful people and posts.

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BTW billdag, do you happen to have any pics showing those light setup behind your TV you could post?

Originally Posted by kdavis220

Sweet, thanks for the pics. Those are the exact same ones I have aswell.

Wife and I finished re-doing my home theater room last weekend (had a Sony VW40 HD projector going to a 106" screen). So now everything is basically in place for the 80".

Technically a downgrade as far as size but the benefit of brightening up the room w/ my young kids is much greater than me 'old mancave.

Originally Posted by billdag

Sure here's a few I just snapped. Power consumption for the string of lights is only 4W (measured with my Wattmizer) so running cost is insignificant - about a penny a day for 24 Hrs on time.