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Date: 2006-11-26 Ok set, but greenish tint The set is ok overall...good price, free shipping, and good reviews convinced me to buy this set. Now, after about a month, It continues to have a greenish tint when using the Colorstream HD input. I'm going to call TOshiba support and see what can be done. Hopefully, I won't have to send it back. Date: 2006-11-10 A good CRT HD TV A very good picture with both Hd and Sd sources over the air TV. Could use at least one more input source with S video in. It accepts a good progressive scan dvd player with a steady picture quality. Set up was simple and quick. Only confusion is the reversal of channel and volume controls opposite to other remotes. Date: 2006-07-07 Great TV, expecially for the price This TV is the successor to the 26HF84 and the most obvious change is the black bezel. I'm still waiting for a remote that works with my Comcast HD tuner. Without this I ended up juggling remotes: one for changing channels and another for changing video inputs between TV, DVD, and video camera. In the end I got a Kameleon universal remote which simplified things. A couple of other things to note about this TV: First, it uses a picture tube rather than an LCD or plasma display. So while the screen is flat, it's not thin. You can't tell by looking at the pictures, but this TV is 19" thick. Second, although it's pretty thick, at 27.5" wide it's unusually narrow for a 26" HDTV. The narrowness comes from having the speakers below the picture, rather than on each side. This is very handy if you want to put the TV in a cabinet that's short on width. The Syntax Olevia TVs are handy this way as well because the side speakers are removeable. A picture tube has its pluses and minuses over an LCD or plasma screen. Two big pluses are that CRT's cost a lot less and are very bright. No difficulties watching this TV in a bright room. The obvious minus is that they're thick and heavy. A second technical downside is that straight lines don't necessarily come out straight. If you display a test pattern on the screen you can see that there's slight distortion, with lines bowing out in the middle. This could be a problem if you planned to use the TV as a computer monitor (which you are specifically cautioned not to do, by the way). In practice, when you look at television programs you don't notice whether straight lines are perfectly straight and you get a picture that is gorgeous. When displaying HDTV programs the quality of this TV is everthing you could hope for. You can get a bit spoiled and you really notice the difference when you go back to a standard TV, or watch programs that aren't in HD. Date: 2006-06-22 Real Quality Can Come Cheap! I purchased this HDTV after 6 months of debating on which one I should get and I'm extremely pleased thus far. The Toshiba is very attractive, the controls are simple, and the speakers are very good...they provide crisp clean treble & bass. My Xbox 360 never looked so good! I was considering Samsung's TXR3079WH/TXS3082WH because I loved the SlimFit design, but when I saw them on display they both had this purple hue in each of its four corners that fades in and out...IT'S EXTREMELY ANNOYING! I thought that with the newer model TXS3082WH Samsung might have fixed that issue, but they didn't. That really scared me off and I chose Toshiba...HANDS DOWN. I asked the salesman why the Samsung TV's had this problem and he told me that it was something magnetized caused by the trains running underground. I then asked him why it wasn't affecting the Toshiba's? When I saw he didn't have a straight answer...I knew the Toshiba was for me. The picture quality and sharpness is better than the Samsung's too. Take heed to my warnings of the Sammy's or you will be crying later.
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