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hi there I'm David Katz Meyer from CNN and I'm sitting next to sharps 60-inch LC 60 le 640 you this is a sharps least expensive series of large screen televisions this year there's also a 70 inch size actually bigger than this thing and a 52 inch er just for the guys who can't afford either those really big screens to give you some sense of how big this TV is here is a standard blu-ray case so you can see it's pretty much gigantic pretty much as big as anybody would want in their living room of course if you want to get bigger and go 70 this TV is also relatively inexpensive at the time this video is about $1500 we expect that price to fall even later in the year as we get near to the holidays the design on the 640 U is very basic around the edge of the screen it's got a matte black finish it's also very thin around the edge of the screen so despite being such a large TV it's pretty compact sharps entry level 640 use series doesn't have all the bells and whistles of its step-up models although it does offer a smart TV Internet suite as well as built-in Wi-Fi there's no 3d on this model or faster refresh rates however it does have an edge lit screen which means that the LEDs are aligned along the edge of the TV that allows the set to be relatively thin it doesn't really help picture quality that we'll get to that in a little bit we did appreciate the matte screen on this TV however with a great big size like this it's really nice to have a matte finish that can do a little bit to reject some of that ambient light glare that you get in some very well lit rooms sharp smart TV suite is actually a little bit less equipped than some of the other competitors it's missing Hulu Plus and Amazon as well as Pandora or pretty much any audio streaming the Plus ID to get Netflix YouTube and Vudu and we did like the fact that the little strip along the bottom is relatively unobtrusive and easy to get to speaking of you can program the remote controls three favorites keys to jump immediately to one of those Smart TV apps and you can also immediately jump to Netflix or the big read Netflix button here sharp does offer a full suite of picture controls on this set you can actually adjust the smooth as a DJ other processing that's a new feature this year of course you can also play on with CMS and get the two-point grayscale adjustment as well as adjustable gamma so most the things we require for calibration are right there and the CMS actually works relatively well speaking of calibration this TV actually did pretty well in the lab it doesn't have quite as deep a black level as some of the other LED LCD TVs we compared it against but it's not terrible on the plus side it does have very good color accuracy so the set once you dial it in can get a really natural color that is pretty much right up to the HD spec one downside however was it didn't process 1080p24 film based sources correctly so we did see a little bit of stutter or on some other TVs you'll see a nice smooth pan for film of course knots too smooth we did appreciate that matte screen for rejecting ambient light and all told the picture quality v is good not great but for pretty good value for the price another issue this set was a little bit less uniform that some of its competitors meaning that the screen showed some subtly brighter areas amidst some darkness although really wasn't all that visible in most scenes in terms of inputs the Sharps pretty well equipped with four HDMI there's also one component video and a few other analog video inputs as well as two USB for video photo music files that's a quick look at the sharp LC 640 u series I'm Dave cats mine