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For what it's worth I just had me TV calibrated yesterday. I asked him what he thought were the best/worst TVs from a calibrators perspective. He said that Sharp were among the worst. He said that although the picture could be improved with a calibration, they were in his words, junk.

That's an odd perspective. My father bought two older-generation Aquos's last year (the then-biggest 46" panel with 1080 lines and a smaller 37" / 720p model). My opinion is that the black levels weren't terribly black (apparently improved on the newer models), but everything else was amazing. I went through the Avia tuning DVD and found that, out of the box, everything else pretty much spot on. I moved one of the color sliders by one notch, which contrasts with my now-ancient rear-projection CRT, where calibration made a world of difference from the factory defaults.

Maybe he doesn't like Sharp because there just isn't much that needs to be done to it.