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Toshiba 46TL868 TV Review – U.K LED TV
Toshiba 3D LED TV 46 Inch – The 46TL868B
What is it?
A surprisingly affordable 46in LED TV with a slimline design, online functionality and active 3D support.
What’s great
Its space-saving is a great find for the money, its price is very attractive, its picture performance is mostly strong.
What’s not
Dark scenes don’t look particularly brilliant, and Toshiba Places is currently short of content.
The bottom line
Although it’s not without its flaws, Toshiba’s 46TL868 still represents terrific value for money.
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Usually when a 46in TV is as affordable as £650, you’re talking about a set that’s basic in the extreme, and probably rather flimsy in the picture quality department as well. Toshiba’s 46TL868, however, is definitely the exception that proves the rule.
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The 46TL868 immediately stands out from the budget crowd with its design, which features one of the slimmest bezels around. This allows the TV to fit into a smaller space than any other cheap 46in TV, and also means your attention is diverted less from the pictures the screen produces.
Connections, meanwhile, could easily have been transplanted onto the 46TL868 from a much more expensive TV, including as they do a quartet of v1.4 (3D-friendly) HDMI ports, a pair of USBs and a LAN port.
The USBs can play back a fair variety of music, photo and video file formats, including DivX HD, while the LAN delivers the ‘double whammy’ of DLNA network streaming and connection to Toshiba’s online platform.
Called Places, this platform impresses with its colourful, clear and mostly well-organised interface, and with its attempts to personalise the Places experience by supporting multiple user profiles. It’s also recently had its content level bolstered by the addition of the AceTrax movie service and a Facebook app. However, Places still lags some way behind all the other online platforms in content terms, with the BBC iPlayer, YouTube and a trio of subscription video servers (HiT Entertainment, Cartoon Network and Box Office 365) the only other services of note.
200 HZ Pictures For Amazing Clarity
Getting back into more positive territory, the 46TL868 delivers a Freeview HD tuner, 200Hz picture processing and a surprising amount of picture calibration – including a reasonable colour management system. Just be careful with the Active Vision system for improving the appearance of motion, though, as this can cause pictures to look over-processed if set any higher than its Standard mode.
Arguably the most surprising feature on the 46TL868 given is price is its 3D support. Especially as this is of the active shutter, full HD type. There is a key catch you need to be aware of, however, namely that the TV doesn’t come with even one pair of active shutter glasses included for free. So adding enough for, say, a family of four could add £250 or more to the overall price.
Normally we’d feel a bit annoyed by this, but the 46TL868 offers so much else for its price that actually providing the opportunity to ‘upgrade’ to 3D as and when you wish/can afford it seems a better option than making the TV more expensive just so 3D glasses can be included.
In most ways that matter, the 46TL868′s pictures are much better than they’ve any right to be. For instance, while many very affordable LCD TVs suffer with pretty heavy motion blur, the 46TL868 handles action-packed sequences with striking clarity and minimal judder.
This helps it look sharper with HD sources than most cheap sets too – a quality underlined by the impressive brightness level the screen pumps out.
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Perhaps the biggest surprise for the 46TL868′s price, though, is the way its high brightness output doesn’t come at the expense of a good contrast range. For the screen can produce more than respectable black colours alongside clean whites and vibrant colours, without either the black colours looking ‘misty’ or the colour range looking compressed.
The 46TL868′s 3D performance is also better than anticipated, comfortably justifying spending extra to secure some glasses. Pictures look punchy, sharp, full of depth, and only troubled by relatively minor amounts of crosstalk.
The strengths described thus far mean the 46TL868 already exceeds budget expectations by some margin. But it’s inevitably not perfect. Standard definition pictures, for instance, while reasonably sharp and free of noise, don’t enjoy the same colour richness as their HD counterparts. The 46TL868′s edge LED system could also be a little better, in that there are some gentle – but only gentle – signs of lighting inconsistency during dark scenes, especially in the top corners.
The tiny frame around the 46TL868, meanwhile, makes it difficult for the set to deliver a particularly powerful audio performance; the soundstage certainly seems a bit flat and constrained when pushed hard.
Balancing everything about the 46TL868 up, though, the unavoidable conclusion is that it’s a mid-level TV at a budget price. And that makes it very easy to recommend indeed.
Essential info
Screen size: 46in
Screen technology: edge LED
3D ready: Yes
Full HD resolution: Yes
Online services: Yes – Smart TV
Connections: Four v1.4 HDMIs, two USBs, component video, D-Sub PC input, composite video input, RF input, LAN, RGB Scart, PC audio input, digital audio output, stereo audio input, headphone output
Dimensions: 1056(w) x 57(d)mm
Weight: 13.25kg
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Toshiba 55YL863B Review
The chassis has also been styled by Jacob Jensen’s studio, the people behind many of Bang Olufsen’s iconic 1990s product designs.The asking price is quite high at £1,500, but as a sweetener, Toshiba is currently running a promotion: if you buy this TV before Christmas from participating retailers, you’ll get a free Blu-ray player and one year’s subscription to the LoveFilm movie rental service.
User interface and EPG
This model takes the same twin-circle approach to its menu system as the 55WL863 that we looked at recently. You select an option, such as set-up, from the semi-circle at the bottom of the screen and this then shunts you to an upper circle where you choose other entries like picture, sound and preferences.
Due to its use of darker colours, the presentation looks a touch dull, especially next to the bright and cheerful menus found on LG and Samsung’s latest models.
The navigation is also fussy — especially as there’s a jarring switch between this circular system and the flat menus that you eventually end up in. On the plus side, you do soon get used to it and it’s arguably faster to use than Sony’s Xross Media Bar system.
Unfortunately, Toshiba has carried the dark and dingy colour schemes across to the Freeview electronic programme guide (EPG). The EPG also lacks the video thumbnail windows that most other manufacturers now use on their programming guides. Instead, it takes over the whole screen and displays 13 channels’ worth of data.
Of course, the plus side to this is that it lets you compare what’s on and what’s coming up across lots of channels. The downside is that it’s overly busy to look at. Nevertheless, the EPG is quick to respond when you’re jumping around the programming data using the remote.
Along with the Freeview HD tuner, this model also has a high-definition satellite tuner onboard. Sadly, this isn’t a Freesat HD-compatible tuner. Instead, it just tunes all the free-to-air channels that it can find. As a result, you end up with lots of regional variations of BBC One and Two, as well as loads of foreign channels. Worse still, the EPG doesn’t populate with programming data for any of the channels.
To add some wow-factor, this model has a camera and face recognition technology built in. This allows you to program it to recognise up to four people who use the set. Once their face is stored, it can automatically switch to their picture and audio presets when they sit down in front of it.
It works reasonably well, although its accuracy does depend quite a lot on lighting conditions in the room. It does feel gimmicky and after a while we just turned it off as we didn’t find it that useful.
Digital media and Internet features
As with all of Toshiba’s latest mid and high-end TV’s, this one comes with the Places smart TV platform. Unfortunately, despite a recent minor update, it’s still a disappointing offering. It’s sluggish to load and navigating around the different sections isn’t exactly speedy either.
Places is split into various hubs for video, social networking, news, music and games. The video menu has been updated with the addition of the Acetrax movie rental service. This is a big plus — before, the only movie rental option was Viewster, which has an appallingly bad selection of movies.
The rest of the video hub is reasonably well stocked, with entries for the likes of Dailymotion, Woomi, Box Office 365 and Cartoon Network. There are also links to YouTube and BBC iPlayer apps. However, if you select these you’re simply told to exit the Places system and access them from the TV’s main menu, which is pretty shoddy interface design.
The other big problem is that the rest of the hubs are seriously under-populated. The music menu only has a single entry for Aupeo; the social hub merely has Flickr and Facebook apps; while the News menu only offers up a single weather forecasting service. It’s a long way off the wealth of content offered on LG and Samsung’s smart TV platforms.
Along with the Internet features, this model naturally also supports digital media playback, either locally from its USB ports or remotely from DLNA devices connected to your home network. Playing back files via USB was trouble-free, as it worked with all the DivX, Xvid and MKV video files that we tried.
However, it was more problematic when we tried to stream content over Ethernet or Wi-Fi. It refused to work with our Windows Vista PC and Iomega NAS drive and would only play Xivd and DivX files from our Windows 7 laptop. This has been a recurring problem on all of the Toshiba TVs that we’ve used this year and we really wish the company would update its DLNA streaming software to make it compatible with a broader range of devices.
Design and connections
Like the 55WL863, Toshiba has turned to the Jacob Jensen design studio for some help with this model’s styling. Jacob Jensen was the man behind many of the iconic designs found on BO products in the 1980s and 90s. This set’s styling shares the clinical feel of those products.
To our eyes, the design looks a little dated — like it wouldn’t be out of place in a 1990s trader’s apartment — but some people may like the mixture of brushed aluminium and strong lines, as well as the piano black highlights across the front. What we do like is the narrow bezel around the screen and the elegant-looking circular cut-out in the middle of the stand.
As this is a high-end model, you’d expect it to pretty comprehensively cover off all of the major connection options. Thankfully, it doesn’t disappoint. The TV sports four HDMI sockets — with three side-mounted and one positioned on a downward-facing rear panel. On this rear panel you’ll also find mini jack inputs for the Scart and combined component/VGA port, along with the Ethernet port (W-Fi is built-in too), and satellite and RF inputs.
Audio quality
The set’s impressively slim chassis unfortunately seems to have compromised the audio quality. No matter how much you try to improve its bass performance by switching on the dynamic bass booster or tweaking the bass frequencies using the multi-band graphic equalizer, the set’s audio refuses to trouble the lower end of the audio spectrum.
This makes it sound tinny and gutless, especially when dealing with music channels or movie soundtracks. On the plus side, dialogue does have a decent amount of presence and doesn’t suffer from the muffled quality that sometimes afflicts other slim tellies.
2D picture quality
The 55YL863B has Toshiba’s new CEVO system onboard, which powers its various picture processing modes, including the Resolution+ upscaling. The set’s 2D pictures look very sharp, not just with high-definition material, but also with standard-definition images too. Standard-definition channels on Freeview, for example, are very sympathetically upscaled, with the set adding in lots of extra sharpness, while managing to keep a lid on picture noise.
Images are very bright, thanks in part to its LED backlighting, but the set’s edge-dimming technology also helps to deliver deep blacks and rich levels of contrast. Colours are strong and bold and motion is handled well. You have to be careful with the MotionFlow settings. On the high setting, it has a negative impact on pictures, making them look flat, as if they were shot on video.
That said, there’s a noticeable drop in contrast performance and the boldness of colours when you switch from high-definition to standard-definition content — something that we’ve seen with other Toshiba TVs. Also, unless you keep the backlighting turned down, you can see pooling around the four edges of the set — especially when watching the TV with the lights turned down at night.
3D picture quality
This set comes with a single pair of Toshiba’s active shutter glasses. The company has recently redesigned its 3D glasses to make them lighter and more comfortable to wear. The results speak for themselves as they’re definitely a massive improvement over the big and bulky ones that used to be supplied with its previous 3D tellies. However, the glasses still seem more prone to flicker than some of the ones we’ve used on competitors’ sets, especially when there’s ambient light in the room.
Unfortunately, when it comes to actually showing 3D content, this set is a poor performer. It showed much higher levels of cross-talk — that is, image ghosting where the left and right channels aren’t fully isolated — than the 55WL863 that we had in for review recently. This was especially noticeable during the menu sequence in Alice in Wonderland on 3D Blu-ray, where there was an awful lot of image doubling on the line drawings.
It’s a shame as the set’s high brightness levels help colours to look punchy. Even with the dimming effect of the glasses and the CEVO processing, it did a good job of making side by side 3D content look sharp and crisp.
Conclusion
With the 55YL863B, Toshiba was clearly aiming to produce a set that could go head-to-head with high-end models from rival manufacturers. But while its powerful CEVO processing shows promise, this model is held back by the weakness of its 3D performance and Internet features.
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Toshiba TV – 46WX800U 3D LED
If you are in the market for a 3D LED television that won’t break the bank, consider the Toshiba TV the 46WX800U 3D LED Cinema Series. Simply put, the Toshiba line provides excellent options for those who are looking for an unparalleled entertainment experience. While similar 3D LED televisions can range in price from $1200 and beyond, this particular option is competitively priced at about $900.
The Toshiba 46WX800U 46-Inch 1080p 240 Hz Cinema Series 3D LED TV comes equipped with numerous features, including:
- Built in Wi-Fi that allows you to get online without a wired connection, while Internet TV apps let you stay in touch with friends via Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and more. If you’re into gaming, there is a gaming mode feature that reduces game controller delay.
- Toshiba’s CrystalCoat not only provides a beautiful glossy screen to the television, but also ensures better image quality and color contrast. The ClearFrame 240 feature provides an anti-blurring effect for fast moving video so that action-packed entertainment can be fully enjoyed.
- This Toshiba TV is ENERGY-STAR qualified, which means that you can enjoy the best in entertainment without heavy energy use, so you save money as well!
Quick Connectivity and Expandability
Since Toshiba’s line of 3D televisions come DLNA-certified, you can access additional home theater equipment options through the use of a single remote control. The television includes four HDMI inputs and an InstaPort feature that allows for fast switching without the headache. You can easily enjoy photos and other media loaded on a USB device, SD Memory Card or even a personal computer by connecting the television to a home network. It’s all quick and easy to understand and use.
Sound and Image Quality
This brilliant Toshiba TV with full 3D comes with built-in speakers and special audio features to enhance your entertainment experience. Audyssey EQ equalizes sound for the room and Dolby Digital Plus provides the best sound possible for your entertainment ranging from streaming media to Blu-ray discs. In addition, the Dolby volume feature smartly eliminates inconsistent volume levels – such as those that occur during commercials. This is a great feature that takes out something that has annoyed HD TV watchers for years!
Resolution+ provides image correction to enhance picture detail while DynaLight technology automatically adjusts the backlight intensity based on screen image. The PixelPure 5G 14-bit internal digital video processor provides smoother images to bring you the best viewing experience possible. All this means you get a stunning image in terms of contrast and color and…it remains crystal clear even when the action is at it’s most hectic. When it comes to enjoying 3D entertainment, a pair of polarized 3D glasses will work fine with this television without need for a more expensive investment.
Toshiba TV – Great Value
In short, the Toshiba 46WX800U 46-Inch 1080p 240 Hz Cinema Series 3D LED TV will provide an unparalleled entertainment experience at an unparalleled price. Quick expandability and connectivity, impressive picture clarity and energy efficiency are just some of the features included in the Toshiba Cinema Series. At about $900, this option will stand out as one of your best investments for a quality 3D LED television. This Toshiba TV offers incredible value for money!
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Toshiba TV – 55UL610U LED HD TV
Toshiba TV – 55UL610U LED HDTV
We promised you a review of the new Toshiba TV the 55UL610U HDTV and here it is! There is no doubt that Toshiba is set to hit another home run with this amazing 3D TV.
As with any other Toshiba LED TV, this model is built with Toshiba’s Dynamic 3D LED technology. This is not only a Toshiba 3D TV, but it also offers oustanding 2D capabilities as well.
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The display is handled in 1080p full high definition display. Coupled with Toshiba’s exclusive technology of 3D Resolution+the Toshiba TV will also give you sharper 3D images that are full and crisp even from non-full high definition 3D signals. This Toshiba 3D LED TV relies on the Active technology which provides the vivid images that customers have come to expect from the Toshiba brand. And, Toshiba have included what they call “CrossTalk Canceler” technology in this TV. Crosstalk is 3D image blur (normally around the outisde edges of the image).
The last Panasonic I watched as particularly bad with Crosstalk at the top of the screen. I didn’t realize I hadn’t noticed crosstalk on this Toshiba TV until after I have finished watching! Now that is a big step in the right direction for 3D! The Toshiba 55UL610U 3D TVis offered with an exclusive and original Quantum Black LED panel. This piece makes black and shading with better character and depth of images. These contrast with the enhanced highlights of the set and allow you to enjoy movies and television even more and give a simply stunning viewing experience.
Toshiba LED 55
With this new Toshiba LED 55 you will have access to ClearFrame 480Hz technology. You can keep up with the intense speed and action of your favorite racing movie with the high resolution and high refresh rate.This amazing 480 Hz screen refresh ensures images remain crisp and clean even during the most frantic action. The screen itself is fitted with a CrystalCoat Contrast Enhancer covering. This covering works to stop reflections of light on the screen which can dampening the color of what you are watching, so your colors remain bright and true. The set itself is covered with a thin metal “Blade” design. The set has a chrome trim and also comes with an illuminating remote control.It looks absolutelty amazing, even when it’s not switched on!
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In conjunction with Yahoo! Widgets, Toshiba is offering NetTV. This will allow you to connect with your Yahoo contacts, download movies, peruse news outlets and post artistic creations online. The combination of Yahoo! and Toshiba is bound to be a powerhouse in the months to come after the release of this brilliant Toshiba 3D TV. The connectivity pack is also extensive and includes:-
- HDMI: 4 (HDMI w/CEC) and 1 (HDMI InstaPort)
- Component: 1
- Composite A/V: 2
- RF (antenna): 1
- Hi-Res PC Input: 1
- Digital audio output: 1
- Analog audio input: 1
- RJ45 Ethernet Port: 1
- USB: 1
Toshiba TV Reviews
Past Toshiba TV Reviews have paid homage to the sparkling clarity of picture that Toshiba TV models produce. But this latest release, the Toshiba 55UL610U 3D TV, is bound to provoke even more positive reviews as it is a bvig step forward in the evolution of Toshiba TV. In short this is an excellent Tv, producing a superb viewing experience in 2D or 3D and is full of easy to use functionality that we absolutely love – highly recommended.
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If you’re on the hunt for an LED TV, Toshiba is one of the world’s leading brands, with a number of models in a variety of screen sizes. Toshiba have also recently entered the 3D TV market and you won’t go far wrong with a new Toshiba TV as they have imrpoved massively in the last 12-18 months.
Toshiba LED
For a 40 inch Toshiba LED TV, the UX series is worth considering. Though its design is basic, with little in the way of curves or color, the LED edge-lit 40UX600 is super-slim. Its 120Hz processor handles fast motion well and picture and sound quality is solid, if not outstanding. The 40UX600 is a very capable Net TV and also comes with a WLAN adaptor. Other 40 inch Toshiba offerings include the SL (412/417), UL (605) and VX (700) series.
Toshiba LED 55
If you would prefer to upsize to a 55 inch Toshiba LED TV, the UX, SL, UL and VX series are also available in this size. Take the Toshiba 55SL417UL 55 inches wide, but only 1.37 inches thick, the 55SL417U is another example of Toshiba’s ultra-slim engineering wizardry. Features include 120Hz processing, DynaLight brightness control and an impressive ability to upgrade SD content to full 1080p HD. Its Autoview feature automatically adjusts the picture to suit the time of day, lighting and picture source. This set also offers superb value for money at the moment.
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You may instead be looking for a 46 inch Toshiba LED TV. Again, all the models and series featured above come in 46 inch width. For the home cinema viewer, the 46VX700, with its true 1080p HD resolution and 5.1 surround sound is a big hit, especially considering it offers over three thousand HD movies on demand. Incorporating a special gaming mode and Internet access to Netflix, this model should also prove popular with PC users.
Toshiba 3D TV
To keep up with the latest in viewing technology, you might consider paying a little extra for a Toshiba 3D LED TV. Toshiba can offer the TL515, UL610 and WX800. The stylish WX800U, available in 46 and 55 inch versions, boasts 240Hz processing for that smooth viewing experience while it is also commended for its black-level performance. In terms of 3D viewing, the Toshiba WX800U is comparable to other LED HTV sets on the market and is certainly a top end Toshiba TV. Check out our full review on the Toshiba 55 Inch WX800U by clicking here.
Hot off the press…Toshiba have just joined the 480Hz race with their new Toshiba 3D TV the 55UL610U, check it out at Amazon, we’ll be writing a full review as soon as we can get to view one!
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