Customer Reviews:
 High priced quality in all aspects April 3, 2009
C. O. Dickerson (Mission Hills, CA)
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
Even in Costco I cannot find any 46" full HDTV for less than $[...]. Mine arrived in 6 days. After buying two HDMI cables, one for my cable box and one for my DVD player, it was ready to play. If you have a home theater system I would assume you already have the optical cable for the DVD player as well. This set is no longer available on Costco online. I did not know anything about Sceptre. I read dozens of the reviews they had. Without the reviews the price made me skeptical about this brand. The reviews were terrific. Since the set is not available there, I came here to Amazon where I've had nothing but great experiences buying stuff. For those like myself, that don't want to waste their time and money on turkeys, I felt an obligation to help, whomever. I love this set. The picture is spectacular. There are lots of adjustments for sound and picture. The PIP is not only sizable in that little extra screen you can move around, it will expand your PIP to approximately 21" side by side with your other picture! Then you can switch the audio. For a sports fanatic like me, well...wow! This set is better, yes better than I expected. For a price so much lower than the Vizio's, Sharp's, Panasonic's, and Sony's, this set is a SLAM DUNK!
I'm back. I've owned this set for 11 months as of this writing. I still love it. FYI: My HD signal is from high speed cable (so I have no opinion on satellite quality). My DVD movies have always played great. My son gave me a blue-ray player for Xmas and the blue-ray picture is as astonishingly sharp as one should expect. I noticed the negative review was not this exact model. Don't understand complaints about contrast or anything else concerning the picture. There are four picture modes, vivid, mild, and standard which are pre-sets with color and contrast etc locked in. The one you'll use 99% of the time is "custom". You can adjust no less than 14 different picture components, from the basics of color, brightness, contrast, hue etc. to fine-tuning adjustments for color temperature (3) and the amount of back-lighting. There is no way you can't adjust this picture to any preference! The only negative (I don't think it's a negative for this price) but the native TV speakers are mediocre at best. I would strongly recommend having your own home theater sound system and this is not even an issue.
 for X460-F120 January 28, 2010
a user
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Firstly I own upgraded version of this, not exactly this one. (mine has 20,000 contrast ration, better than this one, and mine has 120Hz enabled.) However I have many problems with this one so I write my review here, for X460-F120
1. poor contrast. Maybe the best movie to test contrast might be "Charlie and chocolate factory" I tried to tweak brightness and contrast a lot, but still lose details in shadowy scenes. (If I get more details in darkness, I would lose details in bright scenes.) Now I think I got somehow optimal condition to obtain maximal detail in both of darkness and brightness, but then my color looks a little bit weird. (not very vivid, as to say.)
2. 120Hz function, as others said, does not work very well for action movies. I got pixelation (square boxes, that is broken pictures) in the case of "Strong Motion blur free" I tried other values but still got broken pictures. Finally I just turn off this function.
3. vibrating (blinking) edges: this does not occur always, but if the scene contains many stripes, sometimes they look to be vibrating (blinking)
4. Sometimes TV has blackout for less than 1 second. This occures 0~2 times per one movie randomly.
#1 and #3 did not happen with my excellent Dell 27'' monitor (which was $650). It is a really good monitor and it gives much better pictures than this TV.
In fact, not this TV is not in good price anymore, if you look for "LG 47LH30" which might be even less expensive, but bigger. This LG's has far better contrast (50,000 VS 20,000) even though it does not provide 120Hz. Since this Sceptre's 120Hz does not mean much since it does not work well, I'd rather go to LG's proven technology or something else.
I think Sceptre should provide firmware upgrade with a better algorithm, at least.
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