Is it worth it? Sharp Aquos 42" 120Hz

Phanman · #1 02-03-2009, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Whatigot

You cannot get a good feel for tv to tv comparison unless they are dialed in the exact same way and operating off the exact same feed, even then different tvs will display differently which is not indicative of quality.

NEVER believe a salesman, no matter how much you like what they have to say.
Trust me, we're all crooks.

Well I would assume its getting the same feed since all the TVs on display are showing the same picture. Or at least the same row of TV's should be getting the same feed.

You should of heard the sales guy pitch for it and how he excused why the picture quality was so grainy? He asked me to stand back 10 feet and then said it looks much better from this point. Of course you cant see the grains from that distance but it shouldnt be like that anyways. I can stand 2 feet from from the samsung 7 series and see no pixelation on it.

Anyways Im sure this TV is pretty good, but after looking at the samsung series there is no compairson in my mind.

Whatigot · #2 02-03-2009, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Phanman

Well I would assume its getting the same feed since all the TVs on display are showing the same picture. Or at least the same row of TV's should be getting the same feed.

You should of heard the sales guy pitch for it and how he excused why the picture quality was so grainy? He asked me to stand back 10 feet and then said it looks much better from this point. Of course you cant see the grains from that distance but it shouldnt be like that anyways. I can stand 2 feet from from the samsung 7 series and see no pixelation on it.

Anyways Im sure this TV is pretty good, but after looking at the samsung series there is no compairson in my mind.

You will see that some tvs in the same row are spliced 10 - 15 times and some only 1 or 2.
Never assume, thats what they want you to do.

Jason McK · #3 02-03-2009, 07:43 PM

Sorry for some reason I thought this was about the Sony. I do not have a Sharp but the Sony Bravia

Phanman · #4 02-03-2009, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Whatigot

You will see that some tvs in the same row are spliced 10 - 15 times and some only 1 or 2.
Never assume, thats what they want you to do.

Good point, but that would be pretty silly to splice it 20 ways and have it sit beside cheaper tv's thats only split 1 or 2 ways that look better.

I dunno, going with the sumsung either way thou. Just got to save up abit more cash.

VFX · #5 02-03-2009, 08:22 PM

A good way to audition the units you're interested in, is side by side in a separate auditioning room using the same set of sources.

I did this & ended up choosing the Sharp.

I tried Blu-Ray, Shaw HD & SD DVD sources to make my comparisons & viewed the displays with high & low ambient light conditions.

Sharp's colours were not as natural as the Samsung's but the depth of blacks & the overall sharpness won me over.

The Samsung was slightly better in high ambient light conditions.

The big box stores refused to let me audition the units like this but I found a Visions dealer wiling to set it up for me & also willing to match any locally advertised price.

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Phanman · #6 02-03-2009, 08:38 PM

I was going to say who would actually let you do that, but thats pretty nice of visions to haul around TV's and set them up so you can do a comparison.

VFX · #7 02-03-2009, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Phanman

I was going to say who would actually let you do that, but thats pretty nice of visions to haul around TV's and set them up so you can do a comparison.

They helped me to shortlist 3 sets & hooked it up in one of their rooms for me.

The room had a Bravia hooked up so moving 2 displays from the showroom wasn't too much hassle & I did drop a couple of thousand on a HT system with them previously.

It helps the customer that times are hard I guess...

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Tarolisol · #8 02-03-2009, 10:51 PM

I love my samsung 52" series 6. Wouldnt trade it for any other tv reported to be in the same category. Plus samsung warrenty is great, I had hard wood installers bang a board into the tv and ruin some pixels and all i did was send a picture of the problem and model numbers to a repair store they ordered the pasrt came to my house and fixed it in 30min in my living room.(wholy run on sentance batman)