Red Line Problem in Toshiba Regzas I'm writing this review in the hope of preventing the huge headache that happened to myself.before buying one do an online search for .. Toshiba red line you'll change your mind.After researching many sites including consumer reports going to multiple stores to compare picture quality and checking prices many times I finally figured out that the best tv for the money was the Toshiba Regza. Besides how can you go wrong with a Japanese product?Well the TV was joyous great picture easy operation all was perfectUNTIL.!!!!!!A vertical red line started to show up on the left side of my screen when I turned it on.It would disappear after 10 minutes so it wasn't a big deal.I would have had Toshiba fix it but it was 2 years and 2 months too long for both the warranty AND the extended warranty I got.Well the red line shows up longer and longer time. 1/2 hour 45 minutesIt pops up in the middle of a movie for 10 minutes for no reasonFor me it's a big glaring flaw in my otherwise perfect picture.I did a search and found out that ALOT of Toshiba TV buyers are having his problem.
Outstanding TV Had it almost a year and it is awesome. Matching BDX2000 BluRay player sucks though. Sound distorts and Toshiba put me off until warranty ran out.
Everything You Want in an HDTV I bought this TV in June 2010 and haven't had a single issue with it. At the time I got it for $700 plus tax which was and still is a great value for a 46inch 1080p LCD. More than a year later I'm still very pleased. The sound does improve noticeably with an HDMI connection even more so than the picture. The HD quality is nearperfect. The TV is best viewed straight on 1012 feet away but is perfectly fine even from extreme angles. The TV itself is stylish sleek and not too heavy. I hope to have it for several years.
I LOVE THIS TV I absolutely love this TV in spite of the completely poor sound it gives. My husband and I purchased this knowing that we'd have a surround sound system so I can't say I've heard the actual sound the TV gives in a long time. However my inlaws have the same TV and until we recently got them the Philips HSB2313A Soundbar [] they were having regular issues with the TV's sound quality. After some time of watching TV the sound would become distorted and the only way to alleviate the problem was to turn it off and back on. There was a time when that wouldn't work so the TV was just left off. Having a sound system with HDMI hookups is probably the only solution. Having said all of that the picture quality is amazing. Obviously the picture is only as good as what you're watching on it and since Time Warner isn't THAT great and does 1080i at best it's somewhat decent. In comparison to watching welltransferred blu ray on our awesome PS3 the picture quality is nothing short of spectacular. I think Tron Legacy is my favorite thing to watch on it though I'm probably biased by the amazing sound quality also.
DISGUSTED! We bought this TV 1 1/2 years ago and it decided to act up 2 days after the 1 year warranty was up! Once we checked on the warranty we kept hoping that it was the fact that we weren't using an HDMI cable so we bought one. THat didn't help the main problem we were having. The first thing that showed up was a red line down the left side of the screen eventually turned green and blue.
Great HDTV for a Great Price! I've had this TV now for almost 6 months so I felt I could give it a pretty accurate review.First I use this TV with a PS3 plugged through the HDMI with seriously high quality Monster cables and the picture is amazing. I also have a Comcast HD package and the HDTV looks pretty nice especially for sports but not nearly as high quality as the BluRay Comcast is apparently 1080i whereas the PS3 is 1080p. The sound is decent from the speakers on the TV much better than most. I listen to cable programming via the TV speakers and listen to the PS3/BluRay through a surround sound system. I mean what can you really expect from TV speakers? I remember when they used to be on the back of televisions!The TV is durable I have moved once and it survived!. The only beef I really have is with the remote. It's terrible. It barely works unless it's pointed right at the TV and even then I have to mash power several times for it to turn off. The inputs are kind of a pain to scroll through.
TV Shipping was not on time. Product confusing to setup. Once done the TV is excellent. Good picture and color and a joy to use.
screen flickers randomly when powered on We purchased one ~ 2 months ago and had it delivered. Now at random intervals the picture flickers when it is turned on. Turning off and then back on again fixes the problem but I'm still going to send it in for repair/ replacement.
Beware Bought this TV 2.5 years ago. Right away had problems with the DirecTV remote. Had to move the DirecTV box away from TV and use a long HDMI cable. The sound gets buzzy and muffled after several hours of use. This can be corrected by turning the TV off and back on again. Not a big deal just a pain. Then the HDMI 1 input is going out and you have wiggle the cable to fix it. Now HDMI 2 is getting the same problem. This TV has been a pain since I bought it and I'm going to replace soon.
Overall very pleased I have had my Toshiba 46XV645U TV for about a week now. It replaced an old RCA projection TV that was HD ready and actually had a decent picture in HD bur nothing like the newer tv's I had seen. I was lucky enough to find the TV at Walmart for $699 plus tax with free shipping to my house. It was packaged very well with the factory carton inside a very heavy shipping carton. Delivery was by FedX. The TV is ready to place where you want it when you get it out of the shipping carton's as the stand is already attached to the TV. While my wife put the batteries in the remote I plugged it in and attached the HDMI cable from my Directv HD DVR and was ready to go. After a short read of part of the manual and determining that the picture setting should be on native for the best HD picture we both were amazed at the picture quality.
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