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 enlarge | Brand: Sharp
Category: CE
List Price: $1,499.99
Buy New: $1,199.99
You Save: $300.00 (20%)
New (6) Used (2) Refurbished (4)
Avg. Customer Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 380
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 42
Shipping Weight (lbs): 64
Dimensions (in): 27.9 x 12.8 x 39.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: LC42D64U
Model: LC42D64U
UPC: 074000370456
EAN: 0074000370456
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent TV with SHARP image November 8, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
this is an excellent tv for the price! the new slim design is great, especially if you hang it on the wall. it looks like it is flush with the wall! outstanding picture with deep blacks and after some calibrating, defined colors!
Great gaming Flat Panel January 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I work in the video games industry and wanted a 1080P unit for the den to hook in my Xbox360 and PS3 systems. So far, so great!
I have not seen the problems mentioned on its big brother the 52D64u.
If the is a minor downside, is the stand raises the panel by 5 inches, so the set is higher than desired.
Great LCD February 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well, I just bought this LCD about two weeks ago. It is simply fantastic! We went to the store to do a side by side for this TV and other 42 inchers. This came out on top. True, there are newer models and other brands that were slightly better and have a higher price to boot. We're talking $500 to $1,000 more. If you want bigger than 42" then we're talking about $100 dollars extra per inch. 42" is just fine for our mid sized living room. Any bigger and it would have been over whelming (never thought I would say that).
As far as this model: It has automatic color adjustments, so that you don't have to play with the color settings forever. Also good response time. The anti glare is awesome. Other LCDs and plasmas reflect like crazy. This one even has automatic brightness adjustment as it senses the amount of light in the room. In most cases all you need is an HD receiver and a couple of HDMI cables and you're set to go.
Sharp Aquos LCD TV January 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Compact and lightweight as advertized. Excellent picture quality. On time delivery and excellent communication. Very satisfied with this purchase.
Just one negative to point out. Sound quality of the built-in speakers is below expectations.
A great HD LCD February 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Truth be told, I've been looking for a flatpanel HD TV for over a year. I guess I was biding my time and hoping the prices would drop drastically. Well, they have dropped - but not drastically. But all the while, my top choices were narrowed down to 2 or three sets, this being one of them. For me, price was a big consideration, as well has having 1080p. Quality was a close third, though. So once I found this set brand new for an unusually low price, I jumped on it and I'm very happy I did.
I think Sharp created this 42" size class of TV to stand out from the more common 40" sizes. But this TV is more than just a screen size - the picture quality (after some tweaking) is really excellent. This is especially apparent when viewing outdoor landscapes (or golf) in HD. There are far too many picture/color/hue settings to get into here, but I don't think this TV fails for lack of picture settings. While the quality is good out of the box, a little tweaking will make it excellent. You can find a few internet sites out there that give you some good picture settings to use. Action and movement is pretty good - the picture blurs a little on fast camera pans, but so does every other LCD I've seen. At 8 feet away, the slight blur is a non-issue. You should know that the 4ms response times this TV advertises can only be had when turning on the "fast motion" option in the settings. But I haven't even felt the need to turn it on.
The built-in sound is good, though if you're coming from a cabinet TV that has built-in high quality stereo speakers, I can see why you'd be a little disappointed. There is a surround sound simulator option that works pretty well to improve the sound. Bass & treble can also be adjusted. To me, the built-in sound is actually better than my previous 27" RCA tube TV with stereo speakers.
When you first turn on the TV, an on-screen wizard will walk you through setting up your channels. Which gets me to my only issue with this TV: I'm running the TV using an over-the-air antenna. My only beef with the TV is that once it automatically finds the available channels during the setup, it locks them in; you can choose to skip them, but should there be any other channels that the TV didn't find that you want to add to the channel list, the TV will not let you do it. Bottom line: the TV will not let you "add" a channel to the channel list that it didn't find automatically. This could be a problem with users of directional antennas. I think Sharp could fix this with a firmware update, but to date, they haven't.
In sum, this TV has one of the best pictures I've seen, the sound is actually good, and I'm really pleased with it overall. It's a keeper!
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