Toshiba 19LV505 19-Inch 720p LCD HDTV with Built-in DVD Player, Black by Toshiba
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Digital camera reviews of Toshiba 19LV505 19-Inch 720p LCD HDTV with Built-in DVD Player, Black
Digital camera Review: Great Picture and size for bedroom or kid's room.
Summary: 4 Stars
This TV is great for the intended use as a secondary TV for the bedroom, Den, Cottage, Child's room or wherever the larger versions would be too cumbersome. We recommend it for said uses, but a tad small for living-room viewing, as one might expect.
POSITIVES: It's reception of even weak over-the-air stations is quite good with a moderate-gain external antenna, or for local ones, even a straightened paper-clip (SERIOUSLY! :-) )
The color rendition, clarity and definition is above average even when fed by the non-HD output of a Satellite Receiver. When used on the over-the-air HD stations, it is brilliant and no streaking or pixel-hopping.
The built-in DVD player works fine and no evidence of problems noted on other side-loading DVD-Players. "Grab" is firm and operation smooth.
NEGATIVES or FEATURE-LACKS.
As others have noted, the Audio output is pitiful, and have had to go down cellar and get a spare set of Computer Speakers to hear it across a small bedroom, WITH quite a loss in fidelity and some distortion from apparent earphone-out Impedance and PC-Speaker input Impedances (Have tried 2 brands) - Mr Toshiba - you NEED to address that to us owners!
10-degree Tilt angle too small (safety concerns noted) and the viewing-angle too narrow, especially when looking up at the TV on an average-neck-high height bureau from a fairly high bed about 16' away. The image was chocolate-brown looking up at the screen until we stuck a home-made wedge under the rear, being careful to note the balance retention and adding a small safety cord to the wall behind. (It being a corner location, standard TV-Wall-Mounts won't hack it.) As a side note: left-right viewing angles dissapointingly low as well right out of the box.
LACK of Video-Outs (Plenty of INPUTS!) to record to VHS or other recording devices a disappointment - S-Video** is only one and we needed the usual L-R Audio + Analog video outputs. Not a killer problem, but there.
BOTTOM LINE: Generally speaking, limitations notwithstanding, it is a decent TV at the price it is sold here at AMAZON and I have no serious regrets that we bought it and had to make accommodations for it's minor nagging shortfalls. Would recommend it to friends with but a few reservations.
Tom, NASA-KSC Systems P.E., Ret'd
** It has been noted that some do NOT even have the S-Video output. :-(
Digital camera Review: Great Product - Great Price
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this TV for my daughter when she moved to her own place and she loves it. I had compared the picture quality in the store before purchasing it and it was far superior to any others of similar size. She also doesn't know what all the comments are about the volume - she never has it up over 4 or 5 - if so, it is too loud! DVD player is great - includes closed captioning and all regular features. A terrific value for the price.Digital camera Review: Great TV
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this Toshiba HD TV/DVD combo when my old (ten years) 15 inch Samsung failed. What a great TV this is! Absolutely spectacular picture, great sound, and Oh! such light weight. Plus, the price was superb and the shipping was two day air via FedEx.
I absolutely could not be happier with this purchase.
Rod in Seattle
Digital camera Review: Great TV
Summary: 4 Stars
We just bought this tv and we think it is great. The picture is very good for the analog channels as well as dvd. I tried using Divx dvd's and they worked great. I thought the audio wouldn't be strong enough but once I tried it out in the bedroom it was more than sufficient at 60% max volume.Digital camera Review: Great TV
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great TV for bedroom. I recently purchased this for our new house and it works great. The only thing I dislike is the channels change slow. I think the sound is fine. I read lots of reviews before I actually purchased it, and I am satisfied with my purchase.
I took another reviewer's recommendation about a wall mount- Sanus Systems wall mount and that was a good purchase also.
For the money you pay- this is a great purchase.