Just bought 4TC60AL1X 2 days ago after my Sharp 60" full HD give up on me after only 6 years usage. i bought for RM2700+ and I know i can found cheaper (RM2500+) online however hesitate if need to claim warranty, so just settled with physical shop.
Unfortunately the TV screen have a long and deep scratch upon unboxing, so the shop will exhange a new one for me this weekend while i watch this unit 1st.
2 days usage enough for me to post a review, here you go:
1. Why i choose this Sharp model? Because it is CHEAP!!! Yet the PQ is good enough and functionality is top notch. The colour is indeed wide gamut (123% as claimed), it display some colour shade that i never seen before on my calibrated 99% sRGB monitor.
2. 'Unknown' Japan panel type used, but i suspect is at least IPS or VA. From naked eye the contrast is very good and it proofed with my Xrite i1Display Pro, got 1800:1 contrast ratio, this is in VA panel territory already!! In contrast, my QHD 165Hz IPS panel worth 3k only able to get 1000:1 ratio.
3. As usual, the default picture setup is overemphasize on contrast, vivid colour and noise reduction. The out of box image is bluish (that's why you see a vivid colour and 'crystal clear' white), not sharp in 1080p video and contrast too high (black too black, lost the mid tone and shadow details). So at 1st i change the mode to 'standard', reduce the contrast to +28 (Now you can see the details in the highlight as the result of not clipped), colour to 0, sharpness to +2, active contrast to OFF, tint at middle. I also turn OFF the digital noise reduction, this has a big impact on the crisp and sharpness, it released all the details even when i just play Astro Full HD, i can clearly see the sharp tiny hair and face details of the human when the DNR is turn OFF, you don't really need that at all!!
4. The 4k upscaler is top notch, the image even look sharper compare with my previous dot to dot 1080 playback!! But some colour noise perceived in plain background if DNR turn OFF, don't get me wrong, the noise level is minimal and unnoticeable in 99% of time.
5. Like what i said in 3), the out of box image is bluish for wow crystal clear white, but luckily the white temp can be adjusted. I hook up the Xrite i1Display Pro can calibrate the white balance. The colour temp i set to LOW (lowest setting), but the white balance still tad blue at 7600k, my target is to adjusted to 6500k. So reduce the BLUE GAIN all the way down to -25 to achieve 6500k white balance.
6. SQ wise, as sucks as my previous Sharp TV, well you can't expect a good sound from a tiny, thin and down facing speaker right? I just listen the built-in speaker for 2 minutes (torture) before i figure out how to output and bypass the internal speaker. I hook up to my external amp and speaker by using the 3.5mm to RCA cable, settle.
7. Android 8 is handy, smoothness during scroll/navigate menu can't compare to galaxy S7 edge Android 8, haha, cannot expect too much i think. Haven't download any apps yet as the TV need to be changed again. But youtube playback is good enough.
8. Film mode - This is interpolation technology same as SVP manager in PC to increase the 25/30 fps movie to higher framerate real time (to panel max refresh rate, again unknown in this model as didn't mentioned), i'm surprise to get this feature as it didn't include in the specsheet. But please expect to get some picture artifacts in some circumstance, you can turn it OFF for highest PQ.
9. This is edge lit panel, some light bleed at the bottom in full black mode with dark room ambient, not a big deal as TV is far field viewing and unnoticeable most of the time. Screen brightness and colour uniformity is good, minimal clouding observed in full grey mode, again you won't notice unless your day to day activity is to display full grey on the TV!!
Overall very happy with the purchase, CP ratio is high if not highest compare to Samsung and Sony based on PQ and feature aspect. I reserved for reliability/longevity considering my previous malfunctioned Sharp model just 6 years old with 'normal' viewing time per day.
This is super cool, measuring contrast ratio from tools such as Xrite i1Display Pro is exactly what we need.
Btw, how did you measure the contrast ratio, on some checkboard pattern? Did you turn off the room lights?
If you start a review channel or website, for sure you can become the Vincent Teoh of Malaysia.
As you know all these TV marketing just but buzzwords which have no meaning, and artificially boost their contrat ratio measurements by using non-standard ways of measuring or measuring dynamic contrast ratio.
And all these youtube channels only review US models. Brands they keep hyping suhc as TCL and Vizio dont have the same models here.
We need Malaysian TV reviews.
Dec 29 2020, 09:50 PM
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