Moving on, the user is given manual control over the intensity of the Backlight, Contrast, Brightness, Colour, Tint (on all sources, not just NTSC), and Sharpness. We personally find the fluctuations of such systems irritating, so left this one off. It adjusts the backlight brightness on the fly, in an attempt to make blacks look blacker, and whites look whiter. is one of the Sharp LC42BE20E’s “Dynamic Contrast” features. From here, we were given free reign over the following controls: Cycling through the various options (“Standard”, “Movie” and “Game”) eventually brought us to “User”, which already looked a lot better. The Sharp LC42B20E comes set to the eye-scorching “Dynamic” mode, and to solve this problem, we had to press the AV MODE button on the remote: changing to a more sane picture mode doesn’t seem to be possible through the menus. Naturally, we were most interested in the controls which altered the TV’s video display. There are seven menu categories to choose from, the important ones being, ,, , and. The day, date, and time are displayed at the top right, too, which is surprisingly handy. This means that much of the viewing area is kept nice and clean, so you can see exactly what you’re doing. It’s little touches like this that I’ve always appreciated with Sharp’s displays: rather than going for a standard “box in the middle of the screen” approach, Sharp’s on screen menus are laid out much like a computer’s operating system, appearing as drop down menus from the top of the panel. As a new owner of an HDV camcorder, I was glad to see the side HDMI input: it’s now a standard feature on flat panel TVs, but a much-appreciated one all the same. You’ll find two SCART inputs (both of which are Composite/S-Video and RGB capable), a set of Component video and stereo audio jacks, 2 HDMIs, a VGA/PC input, and on the side panel, the remaining HDMI input and S-Video/Composite inputs with accompanying audio jacks. The Sharp LC42B20E includes a standard mix of both analogue and digital AV inputs. Hidden out of sight and out of mind to the right are power, menu, volume and channel control buttons, and side AV inputs. Dividing these two elements is a nicely placed silver border. The bottom of the front panel features a curved “lip”, which partially covers an all-black speaker grille. DesignĪlthough it’s not quite as small as Toshiba’s “Picture Frame” style bezel, the surround on Sharp’s “Slimline design” is undoubtedly very sleek, and despite succumbing to the irritating gloss-black trend, the slim border frames the screen beautifully without feeling overpowering. ![]() So, does it all gel together? To find out, today we’re going to test the Sharp LC42B20E. Highlights of this series include a 1920×1080 LCD panel of Sharp’s own making, a quoted response time of just 4ms, and 3 HDMI inputs. ![]() Sharp’s B20E series proves that the Japanese manufacturer hasn’t stopped moving with the times.
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