Great value if you can ignore its flaws.
Considering the technologies packed into this tv its one of the better value among its class if you can live with some of its flaws.
Positives: Very very good picture quality after calibration. Blu-rays look especially stunning. Deep black and very good black details.
Neutral: Slow tuner changing analog and digital channels takes at least a couple of seconds. Average input lag. Using Guitar Hero 3 lag calibration tool I was able to get 48 milisec in Game mode and between 90 - 130 milisec in other modes.
Negative: Flashlighting. My tv came with 2 large spots the size of my palm each. Reducing the backlight helps somewhat but they're clearly visible during dark scenes such as the cave scenes of Iron Man blu-ray.
Some recent Sharp panels had banding issues. This Genx panel supposedly corrected this problem. However I'm disappointed to find out that it is still present at least on my tv.
I have an inch wide faint verticle band on the left side of the screen. I didn't detect this initially until watching the oil field burning scene in Baraka. Subsequently I noticed it came up during watching the US open and Master and Commander. I can conclusively confirm that the banding is there with my tv when displaying a solid green jpeg. Again this banding is quite faint and very hard to detect but once I did it's very hard for me to ignore.
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