In direct comparison with some other devices (Samsung, LG, Panasonic) and same HD wildlife film of Toshiba 40TL933G has the best image compromise. Yes, compromise - I'm a realist and believe that you can not get the optimum of an LCD panel in this price range. Some panels (all allegedly optimally adjusted) were significantly darker, some covered with fast large-scale movements strongly after and made by a washed-out impression. Some showed only gray instead of black, others remained without sharp contour and contrast borders. The Toshiba has a high ambient brightness, so a high luminance by the backlight LEDs. Contrast edges are cleanly separated, the colors look very natural in good setting. For this, a black, which has the name deserved. The compromise here is that rapidly resolve fine structures in very dark areas in structureless areas, eg. As with black hair. But the picture remains even with rapid movements very sharply (by 200 Hz), you realize that here is a new image processor generation at computing is - so fast that even non-HD material gently can be extrapolated to HD quality. Ex .: DVD Madagascar 2 via HDMI - almost one saw the brilliance of a BluRay. The best image you can enjoy in front of it and in a horizontal deviation of only 7.5 degrees. Then assigns a contrast reduction of min. A 30%. Basically, the image can still be seen from all acute angles, but not optimal.
If the whole screen is black, you will notice a slight mottling of the surface and due to the edge-LEDs a light called headlight effect. Once an image is there, it is absolutely nothing to notice. The correct aspect ratio is the TV immediately in most cases.
In the various HDMI or USB Zuspielern occur due to the digital-analog signal processing time delays between the picture and sound. On my separate receiver I can adapt generous (-500 / + 500 ms). The HDMI DVD player only quite small (+20 ms). Most unfortunately, not TV. The media player for the USB flash drive (also takes MKV HD videos), this function does not appear, the built-in receiver probably not. Even if I use the hi-fi stereo system and to the TV as a "pseudo" center, is not as echo-like run-time differences occur, I can not correct. !!! Here's to the old analog times The built-in speakers are for the normal TV (voice playback) quite well, the limits I have not yet explored. For good music or pure action movies we recommend clear stereo or home theater system. The treble control on TV can be used, the bass control does not make sense, just roar gets louder audible. How should because if you please, a rich bass come? The physics of mini speaker is here to clear limits.
Internet portal is bound available through Toshiba Places portal to get on Youtube, various online movie providers and different approach, moving freely on the Internet can not move. Degree when I Youtube the FullHD demo for Samsung devices look (Blue Ocean or something like that), I'm with enthusiasm the heart is also an online music video transmitter (Putpat, over 50,000 videos) available, which one of his after setting personal preferences and desires can elicit the best music videos. Of course you need an Internet connection to which you connect your TV with a simple network cable. Wireless Adapter (USB dongle) have to purchase original Toshiba. Just as the 3D shutter glasses. Original manufacturer goods is here preferable to the now available, inexpensive universal glasses.
The 3D image so far I could only test a 720p 3D movie from USB, with an original Toshiba glasses. It's great, especially the loss of brightness is not too high because I've already universal and far worse tested "sunglasses". Even extrapolating from 2D to 3D dominates the processor, but you get the impression that you do not look into the depths, but on several, one after the other parent 2D layers continuously in space, similar to earlier computer games, which thus already 3D attempted. The result can not convince me, a corporeal 3D display is impossible so.
The menu is used to, very full of rotating graphic symbols, because the traditional font menu I prefer. For the beautiful narrow frame in brushed-aluminum design comes quality (of course plastic). The real glass base leads to a stable state, an additional gland is, however, recommended for the valuable piece anyway. The remote control is average, plastic, well made, not cluttered, but not very tidy, bit Designer Touch by glossy and two-tone and pointed backwards form.
If you use a separate cable box as I the cable provider, missing due to the system of the TV teletext and also the option of manual time and date settings. This is not a Toshiba-specific problem, but a general. One could reposition as a solution provider of the smart card from the receiver to the TV, this new combination by the cable provider "marry", ie can be coupled, then everything would be perfect.
My Settings for "my" optimal picture (tone I skip), where my TV is relatively bleak, away from the window of daylight:
Picture Mode: Standard
Panel Brightness: +25
Contrast: +75
Brightness: -5
Colour: -12
Hue: 0
Sharpness: -10
Everything else would be within the advanced picture settings here in detail, but you can still adjust much.
I now have what I was looking for. "One meter TV" for a really brilliant image reproduction. But for this now but 3D and Internet. Why not, if my price of well below 600 euros has been complied with? A year ago you would have not had Toshiba on the bill. But the displays have become enormously well, the distance to the display Kingdom Samsung is no longer relevant, yet they are much cheaper. And despite the little problems discussed and partly-baked gimmicks but remains no significant weakness, after having consulted the price performance ratio keeps me from the award of all five stars.
Supplement for 3 months and a firmware update:
Have a mobile 2.5-inch 500-GB hard drive and several 16- and 32-GB USB flash drives connected and fed the TV with MKV videos in 1080p, all the best, runs smoothly. Just be careful: do not use DTS soundtrack! Perhaps the decoding of the media player controls for the next firmware update (here sooo warm greeting to the Toshiba-IT ;-)
Recording on USB stick / plate: Here clearly shows the disadvantage of my configuration. I have a separate HD cable box from the cable provider via HDMI on TV. This passing channel he can not absorb well. If I choose the analog TV on the TV itself, he calls me faulty connection to a USB stick or the USB hard drive. So far, so has the issue of "recording" not much result, pity ... wobbles The fifth star ...
So far, the problem was that about Stick supplied films could only be played back on the TV speakers, not the full sound of my system. DVD player and HD cable box had indeed been specially connected, only the TV does not have analog RCA outputs. Cheapest Solution: Using 3.5mm stereo jack adapter on stereo RCA (Oehlbachkabel) from the headphone jack of the TV to a free Line In my amplifier. Then detach the volume control menu of the control of the TV speaker and adjust to fix 50. So I have a normal stereo sound via the system.
Supplement 10/2013:
My sweetheart has left me! Well, I have in a long time (about 7 months) plugged the network cable again and made a firmware update. That's it. The next time everything was dark, only the backlight showed dark. Nothing was served, only one green LED showed life. Toshiba Service Hotline was quite good, the problem was generally known, pickup and delivery service from 40 inches) was a television Fritz and pocketed a USB stick with a new boot software and put the plug back on. TV rebooted, installed new software etc. and the same goes for the back. Well, the problem was probably the long (?) With no software update. So it was that the boot software in the penultimate update had been updated, and the last update that I indeed wanted to invite, has probably not get along with my old boot software since it required the new. Can you discuss now ... That leaves for the future: more and consistently update or not at all?
