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"Pretty nice picture, but it has it's problems" on by Dissident76
Pros: 1080i, very bright, vivid color, good sound, 2 HDMI, cable card input
Cons: Bad ghosting in black scenes. Does not support 1080p input.
Summary: Let me say first off this set might be good for most of you out there who can look past some it’s shortcomings but I expected more. I have learned that for the price, it is a good picture in most cases.
It does have a great picture with strong colors that can be configured to your liking. The brightness is the best I have seen and can tend to blow out some SD, this is also customizable though. The black level suffers a bit from this, turning down the backlight improved it but not enough. Black level in my opinion is average, depends on what your watching and the source.
Standard def looked decent at about 10ft away with the internal processing. I’m watching Jay Leno at 1080I at the time and it looks amazing. I am returning it for other reasons that I am going to go on about.
I almost was willing to keep it until I saw a show that was very dark and it became a blurry mess. The ghosting was in a 1080i broadcast over cable television. I noticed it first on a commercial where a guy was running and half his face was in shadow and half in light. His face in the shadow blurred around like a scene from The Grudge or the Ring. Good for a horror movie but not for a $2000 TV. Then I saw a very dark scene in a TV show that made me decide to return it. I know the specs say that the TV has a 8ms delay on the refresh and it shouldn’t have this problem. Might be that 1080 is to much for this set.
I had issues with connecting it to my PC also. The VGA input it unable to display at native resolution 1900 x 1080p or i. Nothing worked at 1080 but I was able to get it to display at 768.
At this res the picture was distorted and blurred but was readable from a distance.
I was willing to look past this PC distortion but I am buying for the future and 1080p hopefully on new sources (PS3, blueray or HD-DVD). Just hooked up the PC into the HDMI port via the DVI output of 1080p from my PC and it also did not work right. The TV accepted it as a 1080I signal, but looked worse than 768 through the VGA.
The remote also left me disappointed. Beyond it’s features working with the TV, the volume control doesn’t work on external volume connected to the TV. So the basic RCA red and white or optical is not connected to the TV’s internal speaker volume. This became a big issue with me when wanting to mute all sound or turn it up and down. I tried linking the remote with my receiver with bad results. This remote left me thinking I needed to purchase a expensive universal remote just to mute the volume?!
I am only writing this because I spent many hours and labor bringing this back and forth to make you more educated. This as advertised is a 1080 TV but it is one another that can’t move 1080p picture quality like expected. It is a good TV in some aspects but technical inept. -
"Nat as good as expected?" on by LWHJR1
Pros: Easy setup, excellent connectivity
Cons: HD not as good as my old plasma, typical LCD black levels
Summary: I have had this unit for three weeks after Toshiba replaced a 42HP95 which had an intermittant problem that couldn't be fixed. I'm not sure if it's my imagination, I was expecting too much or this particular unit is not up to par.
The set is as good for SD and non-HD digital but, in my opinion, falls short of my old plasma for HD. HD does not seem to have the same level of definition as my old plasma, especially for moving objects. I am not talking about high speed artifacts, merely moving object which seem to blur just long enough to be noticable. I saw this set at a Sears store and did not notice this on the floor model, though I know they feed a satellite HD signal.
I am watching from the same spot with the same source as my old plasma. I know LCDs can be a bit more finicky to calibrate and plan on investing in a calibration disk soon. Any help/feedback would be greatly appreciated. R Gare? Anyone?Updated
Since my initial revue I have been tweaking the tuning of this unit and it has made a very big difference. Having had both a plasma and now an LCD I have found that tuning the settings is very important for an LCD versus a plasma. This is, as a plasma does not have a back light, we are prone to leaving the setting for too bright a picture given a plasma's black levels. With an LCD, however, you are more or less forced to tune the set way down to get optimum blacks, resulting in a tuning/picture I believe is much closer to what you would end up with using a calibration disc for either an LCD or a plasma. -
"WOW - This Flat Panel LCD Lights up My Bedroom" on by bigzaza
Pros: 1080P should be the latest tech improvement for a while.
Cons: An automatic setting for 'native mode' to prevent normal over-scanning is needed.
Summary: High quality picture. One of the best for HDTV viewing. I'm currently using Brighthouse HD Digital Cable DVR Tuner set for 1080i output. Setting the cable box for original broadcast in 480i, 720i, or 1080i slows down changing stations (a few seconds) without any perceived improvement.
Discovery HD seems to have the best picture quality and use it as my reference program. There is a noticeable improvement with the 'native mode' but using it takes two remotes (Brighthouse & Toshiba) and complicates things. The Regza with the black surround looks great on my bedroom wall but the cablecard just didn't work out. I had to reboot the cablecard frequently. The Scientific Atlanta box has a HDMI output and the TV has two HDMI inputs. One for the box and the other for the HDDVD player. Movies are fantastic, sporting events are excellent, and general TV viewing is better than average.Updated
I posted a review concerning this TV last year. I'm still pleased with it's performance, not one problem to date.
However it DOES NOT SUPPORT 1080p! I was lead to believe by Toshiba advertising that it is a 1080p television. When I tried to connect a 1080p blu-ray DVD player - the TV was black. No picture and no help! I now fell cheated by Sears and Toshiba. I'm done with both of them!Updated
I posted a review concerning this TV last year. I'm still pleased with it's performance, not one problem to date.
However it DOES NOT SUPPORT 1080p! I was lead to believe by Toshiba advertising that it is a 1080p television. When I tried to connect a 1080p blu-ray DVD player - the TV was black. No picture. I now fell cheated by Sears and Toshiba. I'm done with both of them! -
"Excellent bang for the buck" on by gmtnbiker
Pros: HD picture quality is outstanding. Plenty of hookups on the back. Menu's are easy to use. Built in TV Guide feature works well.
Cons: No major complaints. Non HD picture quality is good but not as good as I would like.
Summary: Let me start by saying that I chose this TV for a few reasons. I didn't want a plasma TV because of the high power consumption and the heat that they produce. I didn't want to have to worry about burn in problems.
The HD picture quality on this TV is awesome. Regular TV signals are good and DVD quality using a progressive scan DVD player is also very good.
The price was very reasonable. I bought the TV at Sears and took advantage of their price matching policy. I was only able to find one LCD TV with better picture quality and I wasn't willing to pay $400 more for a 40" Sony. The quality difference wasn't enough to justify the extra money in my opinion.
I haven't had any technical related problems with the TV. I've owned it for almost a month now and I've been very happy with it's performance.
This TV has all of the connections I could ever want. Two HDMI ports, two component video, two coax, at least one RCA connection and a PC/VGA connection.
I would definitely recommend this TV. -
"Very pleased" on by stressfactoryfan
Pros: Nice picture, plenty of connections
Cons: remote is huge
Summary: Great tv so far. Love the TV Guide program, although its annoying to have to keep going through setup process to configure to a cable line to get the guide listings downloaded (instead of the HD imput normally used) and then having to switch it back again. The g-link is pretty cool too, the tv controls the cable box for you. Trying to run external sound didn't work out too well (without a reciever anyway) The sound timing was about 1/4 second off from the built in speakers, creating a echo effect. Also the output audio is not volume controlled by the tv, so it was easier to stick with the built in speakers.
I run my laptop through one of the HDMI inputs via DVI to HDMI cable. Games, DVDs, and even pictures on the computer look awesome on a 42 inch screen.
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