Sharp AQUOS 42" Widescreen LCD HDTV LC-42D43U

Sharp has been building high-performance LCD TVs longer than anyone else, so if you're looking at flat-panel HDTVs, consider their 42" LC-42D43U. Its crisp, clear picture is flat-out gorgeous. And whether you place it on a table or A/V stand or hang it on the wall, its lean, clean shape and piano-black finish add high-tech elegance to any room.

When Sharp introduced the AQUOS line several years ago, it made people take LCD TVs seriously for the first time. Since then, a steady stream of innovations has kept AQUOS TVs at the forefront of LCD design. For example, Sharp's "Quick Shoot" video circuitry provides one of the fastest pixel response times we've seen; moving objects on screen flow cleanly, with no distracting lag or ghosting.



Built-in Tuners: The Sharp Aquos LC-42D43U is equipped with an ATSC digital tuner, an NTSC analog tuner, and QAM tuner. No external tuner box is required to receive over the air High Definition or Standard Definition programming, or non-encrypted High Definition cable.

16:9 Advanced Super View/Black TFT Panel: The TV features Sharp's proprietary 16:9 Advanced Super View/Black TFT panel which delivers bright, high contrast images that are virtually distortion free and helps eliminate screen glare. Its extra-wide viewing angles (176° horizontal and vertical) allow you to see a clear picture from most anywhere in the room.

Display Resolution: The display has a native resolution of 1366 x 768. Compatible inputs include 1080i, 720p, 480i, and 480p signals. The built-in image scaler converts all input signals to match the LCD panel's native 768p resolution.

Enhanced Color Filter: The television uses finer points to achieve higher throughput, enabling deeper more vivid colors and a 150% higher contrast ratio. The TV features a 7500:1 Dynamic Contrast ratio.

Quick Shoot Video Circuitry: The TV utilizes Quick Shoot Video Circuitry to deliver fast response times which provide spectacular motion pictures even with high-speed moving scenes. The TV boasts a 6ms response time.

High Brightness (450cd/m2): The Sharp AQUOS Liquid Crystal Television is extremely bright. You can put it almost anywhere; even near windows, doors or other light sources and the picture will still be vivid.

Lamp Life: The expected life of the backlight lamp is 60,000 hours (at standard backlight position), which equates to ten hours use a day for more than sixteen years.

AV Mode: This mode gives you 7 options to choose from to best match the environment, which can vary due to room brightness, type of program, or type of image input:

Standard: highly defined image in a normally bright room

Movie: for viewing movies

Game: lowers brightness for easier viewing

PC: enhanced contrast (HDMI and PC inputs only)

User: allows you to customize settings and store them for each input source

Dynamic (Fixed): changes image and sound settings to factory preset values and allows no adjustments

Dynamic: for clear-cut image emphasizing high contrast, useful for watching sports

4:3 Program View Modes: When viewing programs with a 4:3 aspect ratio, you can view the program in one of four modes:

Side Bar: viewing the program in 4:3 with bars on either side of the image

Smart Stretch: stretches the program horizontally to fill the screen, edges stretched more than the middle

Zoom: enlarges the picture uniformly to fill the screen (Also suitable for viewing widescreen 2.35:1 anamorphic DVDs in full screen)

Stretch: suitable for viewing 1.78:1 DVDs, when viewing 1.85:1 DVDs this mode will show thin black bands at top and bottom of the screen

HD Program View Modes: The Stretch Mode is available for HD programs. This mode is suitable for viewing wide-screen 1.78:1 aspect-ratio programs. When viewing 1.85:1 programs, the Stretch Mode will still show very think black bands at the top and bottom of the screen.

Basic Picture Adjustments: You can make the following adjustments in the picture quality menu:

Optical Picture Control (OPC): when set to on, the OPC Sensor on the front panel automatically adjusts the backlight brightness according to the surrounding light

Backlight: brightens or dims the screen (-16 to +16)

Contrast: adjusts the contrast (0 to +40)

Brightness: for more or less brightness (-30 to +30)

Color: adjusts the color intensity (-30 to +30)

Tint: adjusts skin tones from purplish to greenish (-30 to +30)

Sharpness: adjusts sharpness of image edges (-10 to +10)

Advanced Picture Adjustments: In addition to the above picture adjustments, you can make further fine picture adjustments:

Color Temperature: for better white balance, you can set the color temperature to High, Middle High, Middle, Middle Low, or Low

Black: changes the viewing depth by automatically adjusting the dark portion of an image; On or Off

I/P: converts input signals based on the type of image; Fast (for fast motion) or Slow (less flicker)

Film Mode: automatically detects, analyzes, and converts a film source (24 fps) to video (30 fps) using 3-2 Pull-down; On or Off

3D-Y/C: provides high quality images with minimal dot crawl and cross color noise; Fast (moving images), Slow (still images), or Standard (normal viewing), or Off/2D (game mode)

Monochrome: for viewing a video in black & white turn the monochrome setting on

Range of OPC: you can limit the range of adjustment by the OPC; Max (-15 to +16) or Min (-16 to +15)

Color System: The TV allows you to select the video signal system compatible with your equipment. The Color System feature is only available for inputs 1, 2, and 3. You can select from Auto, NTSC, PAL-M or PAL-N.

Favorite Channels: The Favorite Channels feature allows you to program 4 favorite channels in 4 different categories, for a total of 16. The categories are easily accessible as A, B, C, and D buttons on the remote.

Input Label: The TV lets you give inputs 1 through 6 a preset name; for example TV, DVD, etc.

Freezing Images: If an image appears on the screen that you want to capture, you can press the Freeze button on the remote. The image will remain on the screen for up to 30 minutes, or until you press the Freeze button again to release the image.

Sound Adjustments: You can adjust the amount of bass and treble (-15 to +15) and set the balance between left and right speakers. In addition, you can turn on/off the virtual surround.

Audio Only Mode: When you only want to listen to the audio portion of a program, such as a music program, you can turn off the LCD screen using the Audio Only mode.

Digital Noise Reduction: Digital Noise Reduction produces a clearer video image and can be set to High, Low, or Off.

Power Control: You can set power control settings to save energy. When set to Enable in the AV Input mode, the unit automatically turns off if no signal is received for 15 minutes, or if no operation is performed for 3 hours. Five minutes before the power shuts down, the remaining time displays every minute.

Secret Number: This feature allows you to use a secret number to protect certain settings from being accidentally changed.

V-Chip Parental Control: This feature allows you to limit the shows that can be viewed based on the TV Parental Guidelines and a movie's MPAA rating. Limits are protected by your 4-digit password.

Closed Captioning: The TV is compatible with standard closed captioning and the new Digital Closed Captioning system. The Digital Closed