Sharp LC-52LE640U LED LCD HDTV Review

Performance

The color performance does not reach a high enough quality for us to recommend it. It lacks detail throughout the spectrum, the reds and blues are incorrect, according to the international standard, and there will be a warm tint to most images.

The biggest offense is the motion processing on this unit. You have the option to watch film based content that is overly smooth with the 120Hz Fine Motion Enhanced feature on, or a super juddery picture with it off. Every now and again, the judder speeds up and looks interpolated, even with the motion processing off. This could be passable performance on a smaller television, but when the picture takes up most of the room, it's hard not to notice a jerky video, followed by sections of super smoothness, only to return to jerkiness again. We could forgive poor color performance, but viewing this Sharp without the motion processing is very jarring.