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Does anybody have experience of this 28 inch widescreen from Sharp? It looks ok and has 3 scart sockets. Does anyone know if any of the scart sockets have s-video input as I do not have a scart output on my Home Cinema kit (LG DA3520).
Any comments appreciated

Jes

I bought the 32" model and quite frankley I was very dissapointed with the picture quality, even through the SCART the picture was grainy. The worst problem though was on dark scenes, when differect shades of black would not be picked out very well, which gave the picture a very artificial look.

When I tried to alter the brightness and contrast it seemed to only effect the front of the screen and had no effect on the depth of the picture (if you know what I mean).

I also detected some colour bleeding while I watching a movie as well (that was the last straw).

When I took it back the sales assistent could not see any problems with it and had to call for a second opinion, who did see my point and confirmed it was the same on the display model.

If you are like the assistant how does not see what I saw as a problem, it`s actually not to bad a tv. And yes, the SCART has s-video as well and the auto switching of WS worked fine with my Sky Digi box

One other thing I did not like was having to manually go through a menu system to select the input (ariel, rear scart or front video in), as oppesed to a one button keep pressing until it selects the one you want, and when you have selected SCART as your input you cannot use the channel numbers on the remote to change channel, you have to go into the menu again and select ariel.

So my advice is to go to the store and have a close look at the picture (especially find a program that has a lot of dark scenes) and see for yourself and have an assistent give you a demostration.

Hope this helps.