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Toshiba 37AV502U 37-Inch 720p LCD HDTV
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Toshiba 37AV502U 37-Inch 720p LCD HDTV
- 720p HD LCD Panel
- DynaLight Backlight
- TheaterWide Picture Modes
- Discrete IR Codes
- Vesa Compatible
Product Description
Marketing description is not available.nd value. It features DynaLight for a deeper picture, Native Mode and gaming mode for a better gaming experience, 2 HDMI digital inputs for improved connectivity, and Energy Star compliance. All of this comes in a thinner high-gloss cabinet that will blend into any room.
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Toshiba 37AV502U 37-Inch 720p LCD HDTV
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- Publisher: Toshiba
- Label: Toshiba
- Studio: Toshiba
- Average Customer Review: based on 2 reviews
- Sales Rank in Electronics: #1371
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Avg. Customer Review:
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Wonderful picture, hum from the power supply? 2008-12-03
Comment: This TV goes in the bedroom. The picture is fabulous. The sound is fine. The remote is good and reasonably intuitive. Our configuration is just the TV, a network media playback device and a laptop, occasionally. No cable box, no DVD connected. The TV is directly connected to the household digital cable line.
I'm perplexed by the combination of audio and video inputs that don't work together. For example, a 2 month old laptop with HDMI out doesn't send audio over the HDMI cable, rather, a stereo jack must be used. Fine, until you attempt to have the TV play the sound. It won't. HDMI doesn't support any audio input that isn't included in the HDMI cable. Having HDMI video and listening to the audio on laptop speakers sucks. Booo.
Component video inputs will only support TOS-link (optical) audio input - no L/R stereo audio and no coax-digital audio. This means we're forced to use SVideo instead. Booo.
Then there's the hum. Whenever the TV is on, there's a high pitched hum. Constant - drive me crazy hum. Nobody else notices it in the house. It isn't anywhere as loud as an Xbox-360.
On our cable system, clean QAM channels get moved every few months. NBC-HD gets moved. According to the manual, rescanning all the channels will wipe the channel names we've entered. Booo. 96-804 is NBC-HD; next month, 98-807 is. Huh? The first evening we used the TV, we scanned all channels. Over time, some channels have simply disappeared from the TV list. We didn't remove them. Booo.
Rescanning shouldn't wipe existing channels. It would be really nice if we could say to scan between 90-001 and 98-890 QAM. Booo.
Just changing channels on normal cable channels is slow and there's no way to "fast change" except to enter the next desired channel or use the "favorites" to jump directly to the desired channel. Ch-Up twice only goes to the next channel until it tunes in. Then you must press it again, post-tune. 1.5 seconds to tune a standard def channel is slow.
Aspect ratio control is the normal Toshiba Theater-wide 1/2/3 plus "Natural" and "Full". I was able to set the input from our media player to be "Full" always even with just an SVideo input (due to component audio only supporting TOS-Link audio).
Let's be clear, the picture is fabulous, the sound is good, but I won't recommend anyone else to buy this TV. Many of my complaints are probably cable system and legacy hardware related - why are they allowed to move digital channels around so much? If I had HDMI everything to connect to this TV, I suppose life would be easier?
Four stars since our setup is a little different than most and normal DVD and digital cable box connections will probably be fine.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Toshiba's capable value leader 2008-11-24
Comment: Like many shoppers who buy their first HDTV, I did my homework. I determined what size screen I needed (37 inches to 40 inches) what size screen would fit in my space (40 would been tight) and whether I needed a 720p or 1080p LCD. When a TV salesman told me I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 720 and 1080 on a 37-inch screen - and I verified that in his store - I found myself basically left with a brand-name issue.
Fortunately, I was able to view my major brand name choices - LG, Sharp, Sony - side by side. That's when I discovered the Toshiba 37AV502U. Compared to off-brands and the LG, it had a distinctively radiant picture. Could have been the settings in the store. I'll never know. But it did give me the confidence to include the Toshiba in my online shopping.
Even in the stores, I cold see the Toshiba was priced lower than the Sharp and the Sony. When I found it online (Amazon and elsewhere) for about $150 lower than in-store prices, I was sold.
The TV came promptly and was easy to set up with the clear and concise manual. The on-screen adjustments and choices of inputs are simple to follow. The variety of inputs (component, composite, HDMI, PC, S-video, audio, cable) and outputs are complete enough for most users. The only complaint I have is that the remote's electronic commands seem to be a little weak.
That ends up not mattering a whit because in today's environment you actually interact much more often with the cable receiver through its remote than with the TV. In fact, I am surprised that more manufacturers are not producing monitors without tuners for use with cable and satellite feeds.
The Toshiba works perfectly with my cable receiver and, so far, has produced clear, sharp images from analog, digital and HD sources. And I have about $150 extra in my pocket.
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Toshiba 37AV502U 37-Inch 720p LCD HDTV
