Official Sharp 2011 LC-70LE632U Owner's Thread - Page 51

Since buying my 70 inch 632U last January, I have never connected it to the internet or updated the firmware. I'm happy to say that I've been extremely satisfied with the performance of my TV in that it has had a consistently great picture and always plays nice with my Oppo 93.

Is my ignorance bliss or am I missing anything critical, important, or really useful by never having done either of these things, particularly never having updated the firmware?

Nope. Enjoy!

Well I never logged back on here to let you guys know what happened, but now I definitely had to do so. I either have the worst luck in the world or just wish I had never bought a Sharp TV. Sharp finally got my first LC-70LE632U set with the purple vertical line replaced with a refurb of the same back in the middle of October. That however was a nightmare in itself though. The first replacement the guys delivered when pulled out of the box had been damaged in shipping somehow and the screen was cracked. So back in the box it went and we had to deal with the purple line for them to ship out a 2nd replacement.

Everything had been fine once I got the 2nd replacement shipped and on the stand. Beautiful picture like before except the stupid DSE that only bugged me much while watching hockey, but hey hockey lockout took care of that.

Anyway, brings us to today and the past week. A couple of weeks ago Sharp sent the e-mail offering the extended warranty. My original isn't even up officially until March plus three months more for signing up/registering Aquos Advanatage. I thought to myself with one failure in less than a year I'll definitely get that done before the offer expires. Well I'll be damned if last Sunday the wife and I are watching TV and a blue stuck vertical line of pixels doesn't pop up right smack dab in the middle of the screen!!!!!!!! Seriously, two bad sets in a row!! Do I have the worst luck or what?

So, I call Sharp last Sunday the 6th fuming and reading them the riot act while of course making sure the CSR knew not to take it personal. They get a case opened and tell me to call back Monday morning the 7th just to follow up etc. So I do that then I get to run through the resetting the TV to defaults etc. again even though the rep even laughed and knew damn well that wasn't going to fix a line of stuck pixels. That out of the way I then got the bit about needing to send them pictures of the problem. 48 hours go by and no e-mail requesting them. So, I call back and they had put my e-mail address in wrong!! I mean come on it's on the Aquos Advantage profile! Anyway that straightened out I finally get the e-mail from them and send the pics. Well here we are a full week later and I had heard nothing back since sending the pics middle of last week, so I get on the phone again a little while ago pissed.

Well to make an already long story a little less long the rep stayed on the phone with me until he could get someone on from dispatch. She put me on hold to check stock and came back and told me they are now going to send me a refurbed LC-70LE640U since I insisted there is now way I was going to accept a third set of the same model after two failures. She of course pitched the 640 as an upgrade, but I could swear I read that it is basically identical to the 632U except that it's Edge Lit instead of full array. So technically a downgrade in a way even, but then again I already talked about how DSE was driving me nuts with hockey, so maybe it's all for the best.

So after reading all of that what do you guys think? Have I gotten royal screwed and am I one of the unluckiest people you've ever known? I remember seeing a few posts that I probably shouldn't expect to get anything better than a 640 as a replacement without maybe paying some difference. But after what I've been through should I really just accept a 640U and be done with it? Would you? One thing's for sure I'm definitely paying for an extended warranty. This whole thing has really soured me on Sharp. This is the first Sharp product we've owned since a 25 year old tube that gave up the ghost back in the late 90's, but that thing worked like a champ and was a hand me down from my wife's sister that lasted a decade. Obviously don't make them like they used to do they?

Oh here's the line on the first replacement set they sent that I'm having them replace now.

By the way, can one of you guys please point me to some good well known settings for the 640U. I mean I know I can do a forum search, but just wondering if someone knows of ones that have the clout that Jason's seem to have for the 632U. I ended up using his and loved them. Well when I didn't have a stuck line of pixels running the full vertical length of the screen!
Edited by deepthinker - 1/15/13 at 3:29pm

Well my now 2nd replacement for the original 632U arrive and is now on the stand. I would dare say that even though this 640U is not a full array that the out of the box picture before a single tweak even looked better. I also had a hockey game already recorded and thought let's see how this goes and lo and behold now that I have an edge lit set I can enjoy hockey with no puffy cloud DSE crap to distract me!! So after all of this maybe my set failures were a blessing in disguise, as that was the only nitpick I had about the 632's picture. I still have until June on the original warranty with the 3 months given for registering for the very first set, but you can bet your a** I'll be paying for an extended after two failures in less than a year. Here's hoping though that third time is the charm and this set won't need to be replaced for years!!!

Follow-up after watching the new 640U replacement set last night. I didn't have time last night to tweak anything. I did turn off 120, film mode, active contrast, digital noise reduction, and film mode, but other than that didn't tweak color or anything else. I even left the Advanced OPC on.

I'm blown away by the picture on this 640U set and I can't say I felt the same about the 632U. So, if your 632U needs replacement and Sharp offers a 640U, then jump on it and don't hesitate even though it's not full array backlit. Especially if you are a hockey fan! Honestly the two 632U sets I had were tweaked with Jason's settings and had to have OPC off completely to have an acceptable picture. This thing other then the small tweaks looks amazing out of the box. My wife usually reads magazines while I watch Hawaii Five-O and last night with the new set while watching I heard her say "Wow!" and I'd assumed she read something interesting and paused to ask. She herself said that old set looked nowhere near this good. Plus, as I said in the previous post I watched a little of a recorded hockey game from NBCSN and it looked awesome with no DSE!!!! I also made sure to pay attention to all dark scenes and even saw a commercial that had a huge black border around it and went out of my way to pause it. I don't see a single bit of flashing in the corners either! It's been a long almost year since my first purchase, but I can honestly say now that every penny I spent was worth it now that I have the 640U.

I honestly never felt that way with the 632U and had a bit of regret, especially with the DSE. Also picking up watching the same program on the bedroom's 61" Samsung LED DLP in the bedroom I would often lament that the same program looked better on it than the new TV. Not anymore. I fired up the same Hawaii Five-O episode I just mentioned earlier in the bedroom as well and not only was the picture just as good on the 640U, but I'd say "slightly" better. So, I'm a happy camper as long as this third set doesn't break. But honestly with Sharp's customer service and the extended warranty I'll be getting, I'm not worried.

DT - Happy to hear that you're happy with your new 640. Knock on wood, but I guess I got a good performing 632 since hockey and every other sport looks fantastic on mine. This is not only my opinion but also what everyone who's watched any sports programming on my 632 has told me. A friend who has a dynamite home theater with top line equipment and a projector tells me he's blown away every time he sees the picture my 632 produces. Based on my experience, no regrets or concerns about the 632's quality.

Well here we are 1 year later to the day and I am happy to report..........Nothing......Not 1 problem with the TV set as of yet. I just finished watching Lords Of the Ring in Blue Ray with the New Onkyo 9400 THX 7.1 surround system set up and it is awesome. I just hope all is well with everyone else and there Sharp 70" 632's.....

Thank you AVS community for all the help in keeping it real..........

@ Peter_in_PA

Any chance you might post your settings for us to try? I'm mostly pleased with the way hockey looks on my 632, but always looking to improve....

Hello folks,

I searched the thread here but did not find anyone experiencing what my 632 is doing. The picture will be great for around 35-40 minutes, start to rapidly flicker and then fade to total black. Audio will continue to whole time. The only fix is to turn the TV off for more than 60 seconds. Turning it back on seems to "reset" it to the first HDMI channel and allow the display to come back on. If you turn it off for less than 60 seconds and turn it back on the display will simply remain entirely black.

I have gone through and tried turning off all the power setting widgets to no avail. Am I missing something simple or am I looking at a return?

Love the TV otherwise.

I want to use my 632 to view a webinar. Altough the tv is connected to the internet, I don't seem to be able To use the tv's browser to connect to the internet to access the webinar's site. maybe I need to hook a PC to one of the HDMI inputs and use the PC to connect to the webinar and view it on the TV. Any suggestion?

Sorry for not replying sooner. While I don't have the Post #s to share with you, I've been using settings DAGAMEPIMP posted elsewhere on this forum last year or maybe in 2011.

I've had my 70LE632U for awhile now. I'm enjoying it a LOT but now I want some help calibrating. I been calibrating/setting up everything and I know I got some help here before on pulling the trigger but now I could really use some help. I'm getting a lot less contrast then other models. Colors are a little washed out. Colors seem more contrasted on samsung and smaller TVs. Maybe it's the size of the TV I'm not sure though. I know someone here was helping before that has this TV and they were VERY helpful. I could use some of that help now though lol.

Try adjusting the Gamma to give more contrast -- then you can add color, if needed...

Peter,

I would connect a laptop directly to one of the TV's inputs, preferably HDMI if the PC has one. I use the monster all of the time with video from my PC and sound through the receiver.