Sharp's 46-inch Quattron LE821E HDTV and its integrated Freeview HD DVR make reviewers gush
By Vlad Savov 
posted April 20th 2010 5:14AM
posted April 20th 2010 5:14AM
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OLED FTW
@zyo
LED LCD FTL
8GB??
@xato
8GB that not even 1 full hd 1080p movie u download....
thats lame, and when 1TERA disks costs less then 100$ putting in 8GB is an insult
@KingpinEX
Look how thin it is.
@xato
8 GB is all you need for timeshifting, 2 hours SD or 1 hour HD. This is not for PVR functionality.
@adrian
You are mistaken; 1 hr SD, and 30min HD. Its only good for pausing the show if have to go do a number two. 1TR of even 500 would have sold me.
Why can't they make new TV's in either 120Hz or 240Hz, it doesn't make sense to do 100Hz or 200Hz anymore...
@Kromatik
....erm, PAL (UK/AUS/NZ) = 50Hz native. NTSC (USAetc) = 60Hz native refresh rate.
100Hz = double 50
120Hz = double 60
@LostNote
I understand that completely, I just feel the world needs to move forward, the inudustry has dug itself into a massive ditch with framerates and refresh rates.
I probably should have elaborated more.
Until people start standardising and forcing a standard that makes sense for the future, we're going to continue digging into this hole and we're gonna be using pulldown for more.
@Eli Haj
They'd work, it's just older, more illogical refresh rates would have to use pulldown instead.
I think the industry should aim for 240Hz as a standard refresh rate in the near-future.
24, 48 (3D 24fps), 30, 60 will fit 240Hz perfectly and 25/50 will use pulldown.
Gush? Do you mean what I think you mean? Oh dear.
@rhodesy22
Sploosh. (I love Archer)
@rhodesy22
I wondered if that was a regional term, I've never heard an American say it.
To gush about something is to 'rave' about it. You can't stop going on about how good it is - the praise us gushing out like a river.
Now all we need is another advert with George Takei and we're good to go.
Doesn't Freeview = Evil? No ad skipping, etc
@frankt
No, Freeview = good! For people who don't want to spend £500 a year on Sky or Virgin Media. And BBC doesn't have ads so I don't really know what you're going on about!
@frankt
Removes the need for satellite.
Ad skipping can be done or left in on any technology, it's the hardware and or software on the receiver end that gets rid of it.
8GB? Is this an actual hdd? Is this upgradable? Surely a misprint!
That's odd...that TV in no way whatsoever resembles the ones selling in japan right now.
-For one, the bezel is totally different (this one looks so much older). In Japan, the controls/sensor are in the middle, and the top-line TV's (LC-60LX1) borders look more like a picture frame than a computer monitor, like this one does.
-the top line in japan is also thicker in depth, but nothing like their thin line (LC-65XS1) which surpasses this one being reviewed.
-and none of them carry an hdd--never mind one as pitiful as 8GB.
I don't know what to say about this TV...does Sharp have different manufacturing plants or something? Are we getting some Chinese outsourced models rather than their cool, stylish, ones?
I feel I'd rather wait and save up until their current Japanese models make their way overseas---IF they even come.
And to think most of us thought Quattron was a marketing gimmick. Or at least I did.
If you ask me, though ... their efforts would have been better spent just giving the set LED backlighting (as opposed to being edge-lit). Color performance for LCDs is rarely a problem nowadays anyway, but black performance (for sets that lack full LED backlighting) has always been an issue, and it seems to be the case too with this set.
Glad to see that Sharp seem to have improved their standard definition upscaling tech, which always seemed to be a weakness of their sets compared to Panasonic/Samsung/Sony/etc., plus the 40-inch model (at £1,599) is a fair deal cheaper, which will make it definitely worth a look when retailers start discounting them.
An 8GB HDD for the unbuilt 'Freeview HD PVR' justifies the expense?
For buffering, it's fine. But you label it both as a PVR and justifying the price...
Is not pictures captured in a RGB-format, later transmitted in RGB and finally rendered in RGB? How does this forth pixel come into play? I'm not saying it doesn't work since the reviewer seem very excited (I read the full review btw), I just don't understand the tech behind it.