Nice small screen LCD TV, November 24, 2008

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B. Colonna (Somewhere in NJ) – See all my reviews

  

  

If you are looking for a very small LCD TV, this is a nice product. If you have room for a 19″, by all means I would go for the larger screen. Keep in mind that, even with the abundance of digital and high def signals out there today, many channels/programs will be broadcast in 4:3 format. Since this TV is a 16:9 profile screen, a 4:3 display will appear that much smaller on this 15.6″ screen.

However, if you have a tight space, like on a kitchen counter under cabinets, this TV is perfect. It included a built in DVD player, which is a nice perk. The picture is vivid and HD display on it is excellent. At this size there is absolutely no reason to go for 1080p. For a 15.6″ screen, or even a 19″, 720p is fine.

At this screen size, Toshiba’s competition tends to be “store brands” or no-name brands. This is the lone high quality name brand TV in this class (size).

What included in the box:

* 15.6″ (measured diagonally) flat screen TV.

* Attached stand.

* Remote control.

* Power cable.

The TV comes with a QAM tuner so you can pull any unscrambled analog and digital TV signals from your cable company. The TV accepts coax and ColorStream component connections.

PROs:

* Vivid picture

* Fully adjustable backlight and picture format, as well as all the usuals (brightness, contrast, audio, etc.).

* Excellent sound.

* Matte finish screen reduces glare so screen is viewable in bright and low light situations.

CONs:

* Tuner is fairly slow when switching stations.

* Stand is not adjustable for different angles or height.

Overall, this is a nice TV for the price and has many of the functions you’d want. An adjustable stand would be nice but at this size its not a necessity. I’m not sure why the tuner lags as much as it does, taking approximately 2-4 seconds in between channels. If you channel-surf often, this will annoy you.

I would have rated this a 5 had it not been for the slow tuner.

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So far, so good……….., October 23, 2008

Since I just bought this to replace a space killing CRT model I don’t have long-term experience. But so far, the picture is crisp and bright, there’s an included DVD player (which I didn’t need but oh, well)and its footprint is wee-wee-tiny……on my breakfast counter it is a godsend. I now have room to spread out the morning paper there. I paid close attention to reviews of 15″ flat screen TV’s and while I think 9 was pretty high for a small screen, the other cheaper no-names seemed to have rotten reviews. I’m trusting in Toshiba’s reputation and the reviews. The unit was shipped amazingly fast from AMAZON and is light as a feather.

I’ll reserve final judgment for about a year to see how it works then.

One thing that I find odd is the VERY VERY slow switching of channels.

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NICE UNIT..BUT, November 8, 2008

This is a nice little unit. I find the picture very clear and the sound is not bad, considering the size of the speakers. Very light and has a very good viewing angle, better than some larger lcd’s I’ve looked at. The built in dvd player is simple and works well and the remote is very intuitive and easy to use. The only downside is you cannot mount this tv to the wall. Because of the dvd player it is not compatable with any of the the existing wall mounts. It has no mounting holes for a wall mount.

Other than that it is a great little unit for the money and works well for small spaces.

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