One of the houses in our neighborhood that we just moved to was getting ready to upgrade and posted in the group chat that they were giving one away. Well if it's free it's for me, so my girlfriend and I went to pick it up and it was a fully functioning 70 inch one of these that is now the centerpiece of our living room
Yo! I just picked up one of these for nothing just to toy with! It’s a LC-70LE757U. I just couldn’t help myself. My model seems a bit different, but maybe it’s the same. Mine will probably be a big ass paper weight, but I wanted to see one of these for myself, bc I skipped this generation of TV’s entirely.
Hey Brian. I see you're still doing vids actively and hoping to get some help. I have this tv paired with an Onkyo Receiver and a Sony 3D blue ray player. I used to enjoy the 3D but at one point the Batteries quit recharging. I just got the battery replaced in the glasses and when I fire it up and tey to play a 3d movie it wont play. Its displaying a meassage that essentially its not recognizing something. Not sure if ive forgotten a setting or a hdmi cable isnt good enough.. could you help some how? Is there a way to chat?
I still have this exact same size and model of SHARP TV and it still works and looks great! I have already upgraded to a 77" LG C2 OLED TV but I won't get rid of my SHARP TV anytime soon. 😌
What do you mean, a blast from the past?? I have the 52" model and it's still my primary TV. Still looks good. A lot of that blooming would go away if it was adjusted properly. Yes, I'm in the market for a new 4k display. I over investigate everything before I buy.
Oops sorry Kim🤦♂️🤦♂️ wasn't trying to put it down as it was a monster and I'm glad you are still enjoying it. Thank you for your comment and for watching the video
I just bought the 80 inch version of this earlier today lol. $400, I wonder how much it first retailed for. Surprised it’s still kicking after a decade
I have the exact same TV and use it everyday more than 8 hours a day and still looks good and works good. I have like 35 3D movies that play just fine on TV.
I still use mine as a secondary viewing/gaming unit. Was big cake in the day. Think I paid close to $4k cdn. Had mine properly calibrated so still looks pretty good. Don’t see the blooming issues as per video. When tech set it up in my darkened viewing area, he claimed Torch mode would kill this thing . Tv in vid looks done. Wow, 8 years and it’s a dinosaur. At least investing in new tech is costing a lot less than it used to for far better performance.
Excellent comment Tom! To your point this display has been in torch mode out of the box. Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and for sharing your experience and perspective with the Sharp AQUOS and for watching the video and channel
I had an awesome Sharo AQUOS, 37 inches. I loved that thing. I bought my dad one when he was sick so he could experience HD. I was sad to see them fall on bad times and really go away.
I'm your first like. (wink) my brother in law has an old school 70 sharp led tv they are okay. i don't know much about them other than they were super expensive in the day
Before I upgraded to my TCL last year I used a 40 inch Aquos. It has the exact same cloudy blooming, haha. Even switched it out when I got it and the second one I got had the same problem. I was happy with the tv on a whole though. Wife still use it when she games.
Ha! I thought this was the same one I had a few years back. But mine was the 70" Aquos Q+ . Sharp sure thought they had a great gimmick trying to convince us they added Y to RGB. Lol
@@BRIANSTECHTHERAPY it was a good 70" set. I had two Sharps over the years and both were a little washed out, and they both had a blueish tint. It was okay, I sold it after a couple of years and went with a KS8000.
Yeah, they was claiming they added pure Yellow lights to the RGB line up. While all they really did was up the peak brightness and added more green nods. So yeah it offered better Lite and Mid tone colors ( and pop) but it crushed the darker ones.
I was jealous when my brother-in-law got one. We just didn’t have all the knowledge and expectations that we do 7 years later. We accepted the issues to gain the screen size.
Ha i remember this TV Sharp use 2 make really good TVs i think Hisense owns them now that's why we don't see anything high end from them anymore i wish they still make higher end displays great video though i love seeing these old displays there always fun 2 look at
@@BRIANSTECHTHERAPY u should see my brother old lcd its a 40 inch Toshiba from 2008 its pretty awesome i also still have my CRT 32 inch widescreen HDTV from like 2006 its not hooked up but it still works its a Sanyo
DUDE! The Sharp quatron 70" TV was my first monster TV. I got it to replace the 65" plasma my buddy took with him to Virginia for work - I got a decent deal on the open box. It was never a great picture compared to my 720p 50" plasma in my bedroom, but 70" was no joke back in 2012. After that TV, nobody who saw it in the living room felt it was out of place. It just made them want to go big, themselves.
And that’s my issue now ... once you go with a big screen, you can’t go back down. I love my 75” 900E, but am looking at the 77” OLED OR ... moving up to the 85” 950G or next years model.
@@jeffcrenshaw9932 I let myself down to a 65" for the sake of the quality with the Q9FN. Though...I do believe the 75" Q8FN would have been worth it for me if I had the opportunity to get it.
cronoesify For sure, agree with your reasoning! I definitely wouldn’t go for size despite quality. In my case, the 85” 950g isn’t a downgrade in quality over the 75” 900E, though I don’t like the sacrifice of peak brightness for wide angle viewing. I feel as Brian does that I use my primary display for home theater, so I NEVER sit far off axis. I want peak brightness, contrast, color, deep blacks, etc, over viewing angle.
Hated my Sharp Aquos tv. OMFG. You wont banding n dirty screen effect u wanted a Sharp Aquos. Glad u mentioned that. I remember Sharp told all their customer that they were stucked with those tv and Im sure it was the kiss of death for that company. Best part I went from that crap to my beloved Pioneer Elite Kuro for a helluva lot more, but a phenomenal picture.. Great vid and a painful memory too. Damn i hate that Aquos worse tv I owned ever hands down.
My baaaaaaaaaad Ron 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Believe me I have some bad memories as well with many other displays. This one was very interesting as the marketing was out of control as well as the price . Great comment and sorry about dredging up the past🤦♂️
@@BRIANSTECHTHERAPY nah its cool, lol . My wife bought it for me as a present. And it was so bad , i always reminded her of that tv when she go bonkers on how much i paid for my Kuro. I mean that tv, like u said ,was suppose to be awesome n it was worse than the huge Hitachi Dlp it replaced. But it was thinner.
I’m a little late with my comment here. But I have the 70LE757U model (70”) and the reds and blues show up really “neon” looking. Played with saturation and values but never been able to solve this problem. Basically any true “chroma” colors (chroma red, blue, or green) come out really bright neon. Any calibrating advice?
Years ago I looked up on how to calibrate color for my Sharp Aquos 3 D and it helped me, only thing I just not sure if that video still exists but I still watch mine , had it for many years, tv has never been a problem and unfortunately it’s on 24/7, 200 days out of the year, though they are newer I also own LG and Samsung however neither of them are on 24/7
@@chadbreedlove5457 that was definitely a draw back ! I enjoy 3d on my projector but its a much larger screen so I avoid a little of the neck and eye strain
I've heard people getting eye strain and headaches from 3D. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones because the active 3D on my Sony Z9D is great. Just watched the first Hobbit movie and it 3 hours long, and I feel fine. It just affects people differently I assume.
Wow crazy to see this def shows how far we have come lol but I've still seen a TV lately that had dse like that and it was a q8fn and also a tcl was crazy but still much less often and usually if it's that bad it's considered a defect now but wow yeah the price on that thing heck a 77 inch oled is 6999.99 but yeah man wow great video
Looks like a bad case of clouding, this was a nuisance for me back in the day and contributed to some back and forth trips to the store for some panel swaps. I actually purchased a Sharp LED around 2010-11, came home and the screen not only had horrid clouding, but black levels were purple in color. That same day I exchanged it for a cheaper LCD Samsung that I had on my wish list that looked unbelievably better in comparison with much older technology to boot.
So that’s why old flat panels were better - more advanced features, better design and longer lasting components inside. Shame on the modern day 4K/8K TVs!
Plasmas always had the bad burn in issue in my experience. It got really bad in hot climates because it generates lots of heat and uses up way more electricity than LED types. I think we went through various plasma TVs before opting back to Crystal DLP and later jumping to LED.
The Samsung plasma's seemed to be hot garbage, burn in and generally not great picture quality. My flagship Viera is super nice, and if it wasn't for the notorious dithering noise of a plasma, I'd still be using it over my OLED. Motion can't be beaten. Movies that are record on film with no noise look unreal. TH-50PZ850 1080P THX. The Pioneer Kuro plasmas were the top dogs, I only ever saw 720P Pioneers though
I still use my Panasonic plasma and surprisingly it'll keep up with my new Samsung 4K no problem. And I'm pretty sure I won't get all those years out of a Samsung.
I think it is, but considering that this TV is over 10+ years old some apps like YT might not work anymore due to requiring the more up-to-date hardware.
I remembered hearing of this TV.. Think highest rating TV sharp did was a collaboration with pioneer and it was called the sharp "ELITE" after they ceased the plasma business. . Never saw it but heard was meant to be great plasma like blacks cost a bomb like a pro grade LCD.. . bettered nearly everything except a top end plasma... that TV looks like bad problems 😖
Sharp ran into a few problems. The zero emissions plant they built at great expense was underutilized and lost a fortune. One of the panel clean rooms was damaged and thousands of televisions were ruined by dust intrusion that caused mold growth/layer separation as the sets were run ( we swapped out the floor models every couple of months ). They ran out of money to develop a 4K version, so they missed the market. Finally, they went bankrupt and the North American operations were bought by Hisense.
