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Date: 2007-04-05 Magnificent beast of a TV We have had this TV for 3 days now and are very pleased thus far. Amazon had an amazing deal (which they unfortunately no longer have) through TigerDirect and we managed to purchase this for $779.99 flat with free shipping. The picture and image quality are phenomenal and comparable to the LCDs and plasmas we looked at in Circuit City and Best Buy. The colors (especially the reds, blues and greens) are extremely vivid and sharp, especially with nature shows. The image seems to get a bit grainy when you have dark scenes in movies, but nothing worth crying over. Standard def programs don't look that great, but I think that may be a factor of our digital cable company and not the TV itself. HD programs, however, are SPECTACULAR. We upgraded our digital cable box from Time Warner to HD and set the output at 720p and we are hooked watching even the most crappiest of HD shows. Viewing angle is good. We agree that you lose picture at around 45 degrees. But for our small living room, we're usually watching head on so it's not a problem. For gaming purposes, we hooked our XBox360 up using Monster HD component cables and it is STUNNING. Better than an arcade and in the comfort of your own home. Marvel Ultimate Alliance went from something where you didn't know if you were beating up your fellow team members or the enemies on our old reliable 19" to Spiderman and Captain America running around in your living room destroying Doombots. Sound quality is not on par with the picture quality, but acceptable. Again, in our small confines, we didn't even need to hook up to our speakers and it was fine. Nothing to complain about. Remote doesn't look cool, but is easy to use and allows you to switch inputs, which is nice. TV itself is nicely designed, and is actually not that bulky for a 42". Connections are mislabled as other users have pointed out: composite (1 in), S-Video (1 in), component (2 in), HDMI (2 in) - ONLY 1!!!, RF (1 in), PC VGA (1 in.) - NONE!!! There is something that looks like a VGA input that is not addressed in the instruction manual, but we checked with Toshiba and we think it is an output for updating firmware/servicing. The PIP/POP/PDB options are great and vast. You can switch audio between your 2 sources to whichever you like. You can have XBox on one screen and a TV show on the other. Only thing is you will need to purchase a separate HDMI cable to use PIP (one source must be HDMI, the other can be any of the other sources). Delivery took approximately 1 week and came by special truck freight. They called in advance and were courteous, but there was only 1 poor guy to do the work, so my husband had to lend a hand. Again, we are very pleased with this purchase. Our only concern now is about the DLP lamp blowing after a few months of usage. The 50" model have a few negative comments on Amazon about lamp reliability, but overall good reviews. Short term review - 5+ stars. Long term review - only the future will tell. Date: 2007-03-30 Incredible High Def. Television, would buy it again! I found this to be a great high definition TV, easy to operate, great picture quality, etc. Nice style. Couldn't ask for more and what a bargain!! Date: 2007-03-27 Terrific TV for Super Price! Okay, i like many others out there decided to move up do HDTV, but have end up searching for something affordable for 10 weeks. After first targeting an affordable 37" Lcd I talked myself into going larger with something in 42" size. I worked it hard but found Lcd and Plazmas of this size and in the $900-$1000 price range to be virtually nonexistant, especially if you desire a built-in tuner. I had kind of shyed away from Dlp because of the viewing angle, but when I saw the fantastic price of $799 with free shipping on this toshiba I gave in and ordered. I had been jacked around once by one of these internet drop ship sites that get all the awful reviews so the amazon name being connected to the sale made me feel more at ease. It took about a week to arrive, and after my long search that didn't seem to long. Each day that has gone by since it arrived I have become more and more pleased with the purchase. The screen size and appearance looks great in our family room 14X15. I found the set up to be very simple and once I got the HD running by adding component cables, I have been very pleased with the picture. THis TV produces sharp images with good contrast and I find the remote and menu system to work very well, providing a pretty good range of adjustment for contrast/brightness/color/ tint etc. There are presets for sport/game/vivid and then there is an adjusted setting saved as user. You can flip between those settings pretty easily and with some pictures coming on almost to colorful I have my user settings toned down a bit from the presets. The picture for nature shows is stunning and the NCAA tournament has looked great. I also am newly enthused about hockey because the picture is so good. As mentioned by others I would say the sound is not on par with the picture. For me its mostly a volume issue, but when turned up high it does sound good and is actually an improvement to my old tv. Finally I would say that i have been pleasantly surprised by the viewing angle. Our tv is placed in the corner of a room about 15 ft square. It seems that we get a good picture from most views in the room as long as you ar not looking up/down at the Tv from close up. If you were saying to yourself, "I'll give up a little bit if I can get a good price on HDTV", then I think you will be very happy with this tv. Date: 2007-03-26 Excellent Picture! After doing an EXTENSIVE amount of research on all of the different possibilities for a budget of around a thousand dollars, I decided that DLP would be the way to go. I was considering both this and the samsung 46" model. Once I saw the excellent reviews on this product along with the amazon price-drop to $799 including shipping I had to jump on it. I have been VERY impressed with the TV so far (have had it a couple weeks). Compared with what I saw at Best Buy when I was still looking, the picture rivals if not exceeds, the picture on most mid-high end plasma/LCD screens and will blow any CRT out of the water. I use this TV primarily for HDTV watching and XBOX 360, both of which look amazing on it. Excellent black renditions give a very vivid picture. As for the viewing angle there is little to no loss all the way out to a 45 degrees. Even past that it still isn't bad. The sound quality is pretty average. Nothing to complain about but it isn't that great either. I turned the bass up all the way and that seemed to help a little. I will probably end up buying a surround sound system. WARNING: Amazon has mislabeled the inputs. The TV only has ONE HDMI input and ZERO VGA inputs. However if your computer has DVI output, you can buy a cheap converter cable to put it into the HDMI port. It is mislabeled in this way on most other sites as well. It still has 2 HD component inputs which are almost as good as HDMI. To those of you who are worried about the rainbow effect, I can see it when there are very bright objects against a dark background. It doesn't really bother me though and I am the only one out of my 5 roomates who can see it (they think I'm crazy), so chances are it won't bother most people. The remote is pretty good because swtitching inputs is easy and it was easy to program for my digital cable box so I only have to worry about one remote now. PROS: - Amazing picture - Low price tag - Good viewing angles - Relatively easy to use - Visually appealing casing CONS: -Average sound system -Only one HDMI and no VGA inputs -Small percentage may notice rainbow effect OVERALL: At about $800, this TV is a STEAL. This combined with the great picture quality more than makes up for the few little nuances that may bother some people. I have been very happy with my purchase. Date: 2007-03-26 GREAT TV FOR THE PRICE This is a GREAT TV for the price. The pictures on amazon dont do it justice, they show a grey border, but it is actually BLACK - (It looks really sharp and has eye appeal) The picture quality is superb! The performance is great! The sound isn't that great, but if you have a surround sound system, then this is nothing to worry about! For the price I give it 5 Stars!!!!!
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