I looked at a lot of televisions at a bunch of stores, did some research, looked at prices and ended up purchasing the Sharp LC-60C7500U. The picture is very good but suffers from a problem I noticed in a lot of large wide-screen TVs: The details in faces tend to be sort of wiped out and featureless, like everyone is wearing pancake stage makeup. This is highly dependent on the source, too, and doesn't always happen. But it happens enough to be mildly annoying. I find that the 240 Hz (augmented to 480 Hz by Aquamotion) accentuates this flaw, so for most viewing, I turn all this stuff off. I was watching a nature show about leopards and the spots were kind of swimming around as the Aquamotion tried to blend the pixels to hide any jitter. I also usually turn off automatic contrast control. It makes the screen get noticeably brighter or darker, depending on the scene, and is, again, mildly annoying. However, for watching sports or other fast moving sources, these features work great.
The sound is very good, with enough bass that I usually don't feel the need to run audio through my stereo system. It doesn't get very loud, but loud enough for viewing. Since it is advertised as 35W, it seems they could have put some speaker terminals in the back to allow secondary speakers, but apparently no one does this.
As mentioned before, I find myself adjusting picture quality a lot. This will surely taper off as I get more used to what settings I like, but for the time being I have to keep the TV remote close by. One thing I am finding that has to be adjusted is zoom and stretch. You can pick which format you want, but you can't simply turn it off and rely on whatever the source provides. So when I switch from TV to DVD, I have to fiddle with the controls to make the screen look right, depending on the movie. "The King's Speech" requires one setting, while "Casablanca" requires another.
Overall, I'm pleased with my purchase. In retrospect, I could have purchased a 55" and been just as happy, but I'm not bringing this one back.
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