Mitsubishi WD-73837 73-Inch 1080p 120Hz Home Theater DLP HDTV

by Mitsubishi

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 65.2 x 43.6 inches ; 92.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 116 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B001XUR5GS
• Item model number: WD-73837
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,432 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

(April 7, 2009)
With picture performance that outpaces today's smaller flat panels, Mitsubishi's 73-inch WD-73837 offers a larger than life, intensely vivid viewing experience. In screen sizes ranging from 60" to 82", Mitsubishi Home Theater TVs define the large screen entertainment category by offering incomparable value and stronger performance than smaller flat panel televisions. Mitsubishi's 837 Series are for customers who value performance above all else by offering an extensive list of features designed to give you complete freedom to fine tune your set.

Mitsubishi's 837 Series are for customers who value performance above all else. Click to enlarge or view inputs.

1080p High-Definition DLP Display System
The WD-73837 uses Texas Instruments Digital Light Processing technology for rear-projection TVs to create the picture you see on screen. All images are displayed at 1080p, and the TV uses Plush 1080p 5G to convert lower-resolution signals to 1080p for display. It'll also accept 1080p original signals and maintain them at 1080p through all processing until displayed.

3D Ready
All Mitsubishi 1080p DLP HDTVs are 3D Ready. This feature lets you experience the new 3D technologies applied to many recent movies and video games. Immerse yourself in your favorite video game, movie, or sporting event displayed in 3D.

16:9 Widescreen Picture Format
Enjoy a full theatrical experience in the comfort of your home. View pictures as film directors intended them. Digital TV broadcasts, DVDs and newer video game consoles support this widescreen format.

Integrated HDTV Tuner
The WD-73837 features an internal HDTV tuner able to receive both over-the-air HDTV broadcasts (received via an antenna) and non-scrambled digital cable broadcasts, including non-scrambled HDTV cable programming.

Smooth 120Hz
Mitsubishi's Smooth 120Hz Film Motion takes 120Hz technology to the next level with dejudder for film originated content. In the conversion of film-to-video for display, 24Hz artifacts can be seen in slow panning scenes. Smooth 120Hz Film Motion eliminates this artifact for smooth, crisp, fast and slow action content.

x.v. Color provides breathtaking realism and vivid, natural colors. Click to enlarge.

Control your entire home theater system with a single remote. Click to enlarge.

Mitsubishi's PerfectColor gives you total control over your on-screen picture. Click to enlarge.

Plush 1080p 5G converts lower-resolution signals to 1080p for display. Click to enlarge.

Escape motion blur with Smooth120Hz. Click to enlarge.

6-Color Processor
Mitsubishi's 6-Color Processor processes and produces images with six different colors--instead of the traditional three--to display a wider range of colors, brighter colors and whiter whites.

PerfectColor
PerfectColor replaces the traditional "tint" control on TVs, giving users far more control over their on-screen picture. Adjust six colors independently to dial in the perfect picture. In addition, PerfectTint sliders allow you to adjust six hues for the current image source.

x.v.Color
x.v.Color is the new standard in high-definition color, which delivers up to 80 percent more color than standard HDTV for breathtaking realism and vivid, natural colors.

USB Input
The WD-73837 can read photo or music files from a USB device. Enjoy your favorite MP3/WMA music files, your JPEG images, or combine the two in a music-accompanied slide show. The TV can also display input from a camera through the Y/VIDEO port.

High-Definition Video Inputs

• Three Component Video Inputs.
  Also called Y/Pb/Pr inputs, these inputs receive standard analog video formats of 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i high-definition signals. This provides a high level of flexibility when connecting DVD players/recorders, cable boxes, and satellite receivers.
  
  
• Four HDMI Inputs.
  These inputs accept digital 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p video signals plus PCM digital stereo signals. The HDMI inputs can also accept a variety of PC signals and resolutions. These inputs support HDMI 1.3 Deep Color (up to 36 bits) and the x.v.Color extended color gamut. Used with an adapter, these HDMI inputs also accept compatible digital DVI video signals. HDMI inputs provide additional high-performance, high-definition connections for maximum flexibility in your choice of home theater products. The HDMI inputs are HDCP copy-protection compatible.

Easy Connect Auto Input Sensing
Easy Connect Auto Input Sensing automatically recognizes when you plug in a device and prompts you to assign a name to it. The TV ignores any unused inputs, so the result is an uncluttered menu where you can easily find and select connected devices by name.

Home-Theater Control

• HDMI Control
  HDMI devices with Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) capabilities may be compatible with the TV's HDMI Control feature. Compatible devices can receive control signals through the HDMI connection, allowing the TV's remote control to operate some functions of these devices.
  
  
• Net Command with IR Learning
  Mitsubishi's 837 Series offers a new level of networking that seamlessly integrates selected older A/V products with new and future digital products. Net Command supports IR (infrared) control of products such as VCRs, DVD players, cable boxes, and satellite receivers. Net Command can "learn" remote control signals directly from many devices, allowing you to create a customized NetCommand-controlled home theater system. The necessary IR emitter cables are available for purchase separately from Mitsubishi.

ENERGY STAR Compliance
This TV meets ENERGY STAR efficiency standards in all operating modes.

What's in the Box
Mitsubishi WD-73837 73-Inch 1080p 120Hz Home Theater DLP HDTV, Remote Control, Two AA Batteries, Basic Owner's Guide, HDTV Quick-Setup Guide, Product Registration Card

With standard-definition TVs, the rule used to be that viewers would feel comfortable watching a set from a distance of 3 to 6 times the screen size in inches. With HDTV, the resolution is so much better that you can sit closer to a larger TV without noticing the pixels. So with HDTVs, the rule tends to be you can sit anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times the screen size (in inches) for the best experience. If you know the size of the room you have already, where you want to sit, and where your new HDTV should go once you get it, you can figure out the size HDTV you should get. Minimum size = Viewing distance/3 Maximum size=Viewing distance/1.5

Product Description

With picture perfomance that outpaces todays smaller flat panels, Mitsubishi Home Theater TVs offer a larger than life, intensely vivid viewing experience. In screen sizes ranging from 60 inches to 82 inches, Mitsubishi Home Theater TVs define the large screeen entertainment category by offering incomparable value and stronger performance than smaller flat panel televisions!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best bang for the buck!, September 28, 2009

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Aaron Tompkin (Iowa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mitsubishi WD-73837 73-Inch 1080p 120Hz Home Theater DLP HDTV (Electronics)

Got this TV a week ago, and I have to say I'm very impressed. I was originally planning on putting in a ceiling-mount projector with an 80" screen, but I saw a huge price drop on the 73835 and ordered it through Electronics Expo... after I placed the order, they called me and said they had oversold it and upgraded me to the new 73837 for the same price! Great customer service. A few things about the TV: It's big and bright! It comes set on "brilliant" picture mode, which is horrible. I usually calibrate my TV's as best I can with Video Essentials or Avia, but this model has an in-depth picture adjustment menu with ISF level adjustments. There are two advanced picture presets and the second one looks perfect to me. Had a bunch of people over for the Penn State-Iowa game this weekend and they could not believe how real the game looked. I bought the Bell'O AVSC-9870 stand for it, which fits it perfectly and is selling cheap on Amazon right now. (note, this stand looks fabulous, but is not very deep. If you have big audio components, they may not fit). If you scroll halfway down the page for that stand you can see the Mitsu sitting on it. The TV is not very heavy, but it's awkward to move. The remote is a waste. Most people don't use their TV's remotes anymore, so I won't knock it for that. The menus are not very intuitive, but other than that, I have no other problems with this set. The built-in speakers sound pretty decent, but I'll never have them on. It looks awesome with Blu-Ray and PS3 games, but up-sampled DVDs show their lack of resolution at this screen size. The screen non-reflective, which is a nice change from my 57" Toshiba that you could see everything reflecting on. The lamp is easy to replace yourself, with a pull-out cartridge in the back, unlike older TVs where you had to get a service tech to do it. A replacement bulb is $99 from Mitsubishi, but you shouldn't need one for a few years. It does lack picture in picture, but I'm not too keen on that anyway. All in all, I'm really pleased with this TV, and would recommend it to anyone looking for a big screen for a lot less than a similar sized flat panel. For a more in-depth review, Home Theater magazine reviewed it in their latest issue and gave it 4 stars for value.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great set. . .after calibration., December 28, 2009

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Boomer HD DVD Lover (Cincinnati, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mitsubishi WD-73837 73-Inch 1080p 120Hz Home Theater DLP HDTV (Electronics)

This TV was a replacement for a 62" Toshiba HDTV from late 2005. The Toshiba had been calibrated using a DVD calibration disc (and the color filters that come with the DVD) fed into the component video inputs.

First of all, 73" is a dramatic step up from just about anything you may have seen short of a front projection set up (Mitsu, however, now goes even one larger, 82", if you have the living room real estate.) It is about 1" less deep than the outgoing Toshiba -- but this means it will require at least 12" more distance from the wall (or whatever is behind it) behind it than "flat screen" HDTVs which usually require 3" to 6" of rear clearance. In our case the 73837 is in a large family room and it does not eat up an objectionable amount of real estate.

Second, the "super thin" frame and very low base, make the TV, when off, not overwhelm the room the way the Toshiba with its side speakers and high base seemed to do.

Third, the picture, out of the box is bad, correction, not just bad, it was horrible. It is set to a preference called "Brilliant." This setting should be called "blaring," or "blooming" or "garish" -- it is so over-bright, over-blue and over-saturated it is unbearable -- but fear not.

Fourth, the screen is non-reflective, meaning that you can watch this TV with the lights on in the room, although I can't imagine seriously watching this "Theater" with ambient room lighting anything much over "way dim." The 73837 is, however, plenty bright enough, even with the lights on.

When the set was delivered, all that was done by the deliverer was to be taken out of the box and set up on the stand where the Toshiba had been. I had to make the connections -- and, in my case, since I use composite video for the set up OSD for my Proceed AVP, and component video from DirecTV and my HD disc player due to the long length of my cable runs, I had to look up the proper way to plug it in since it is not entirely intuitive. If you use HDMI or only component you should not have any issues, however. S-Video is officially dead, BTW. I'd skip composite video altogether if at all possible.

The bad news, as noted, were the factory settings -- abandon them entirely.

The good news, Mitsubishi has included extensive calibration setting capabilties -- although the BASIC user's manual that comes in the box is useless as far as actually calibrating the set is concerned (you can download a more complete version for free from Mitsu's web site.) More good news, the set CAN BE CALIBRATED by "mere mortals" with one of the available DVD calibration discs on the market (there is even a Blu-Ray (HD) calibration disc; but, if you have one of the older SD calibration discs, I would see no reason to go out and buy a new HD version, since they are virtually identical.

Allow a couple of hours+ for the set-up process and give the TV at least an hour at room temperature before turning it on, especially if you take delivery on a cold wintry day like I did. After "assuming room temperature," turn the TV on and allow at least another half an hour for "stabilization" of the "light engine" (mainly the bulb.)

You will have to use several of the menus (across the top and down the left side) that can be selected by pressing the Menu button (on the otherwise crummy, not back lit, remote) for the set up process. The menu that you will spend the most time with is called "Picture+" and you will then need to go to the "Advanced Picture Sub-Menu" for the work that will follow.

The first thing you will want to do is make certain ALL of the "special" software picture enhancers are turned off (e.g., Deep Field Imager, Super Resolution, Sharp Edge, Video Noise, etc.) You will, in the event that you do not have a calibration disc, need, first and foremost to turn down the brightness and contrast a few notches and set the Gamma control to 2.2, and the sharpness control no higher than 10 (zero or anything in between is also OK.) You may want to adjust "Color," (a notch or so lower) I found the factory setting for "Tint" to be fine.

There are literally dozens of other settings that can be adjusted, and/but, to do it right you will need the "name here" calibration DVD or Blu-Ray disc (I used Digital Video Essentials DVD, in SD, FWIW.)

You should set -- from the Global Menu -- film mode to "Auto," and from the energy menu (accessed from the left side vertical menu) you should set the lamp mode to "Standard." You can also set the clock and even turn on and off the center Blue Glow on the front of the cabinet. After trying it both ways, I left the Blue Glow in the "on" position -- you may prefer otherwise. Make sure you turn Smooth 120Hz off, too or you may find the picture looks a bit, er, "artificial."

When you are watching the set, make certain to press the "More" button on the remote and then follow it with the "Video" button (there will be an on screen prompt), choose the "Standard" setting and the Mitsubishi will automatically track the format of the incoming signal, and it will not alter or distort the picutre (it will, indeed, show with a press of the "Info" button, that you are watching source material: 420p, 720p, 1080i, etc, "Standard.") Remember by the time you do this, you will have already set film mode to Auto.

With respect to all the many, many other settings: With a calibration disc you can get this set to damn near perfect; and, even without a calibration disc, you can certainly improve on the factory settings -- and Mitsubishi even gives you a High Def still image which one can assume contains "all the elements" you need to fine tune the settings "to your tastes."

Or you can pony up about $300 and have the set professionally calibrated.

For the money, not to damn with faint praise, nothing else even comes close to this 73" beauty (once it is calibrated) -- and, frankly, even for more than double the money (which will almost certainly be for a much smaller TV) nothing else comes close to the picture of this TV.

Oh, one last thing, the speakers and "audio" are very close to if not actually, Total Crap. But, that, too, is personal.

Five+ stars.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Mitsubishi WD-73837 Is The Best DLP I've Owned, September 19, 2009

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John F. Wright "jfwright1955" (Salt Lake City, Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mitsubishi WD-73837 73-Inch 1080p 120Hz Home Theater DLP HDTV (Electronics)

We've owned a few Mitsubishi's over the years simpy because they've been so reliable and last forever. Our old WD-62725 DLP got moved downstairs to make way for our new WD-73837 DLP.

We'd always been impressed by the 62725's picture quality and expected the new WD-73837's picture to certainly be an improvement based on it's newer technology. What we didn't expect was the absolutely stunning picture quality the WD-73837 delivers. With its crisp picture and incredible colors it's just like looking out of an open window minus the smells in the air. Because of its great picture HD movies take on an almost 3D-ish quality.

One of the reasons we decided to stay with another DLP is because of the ability to see the screen even at a high angles off to the side so we could watch it from our kitchen. This TV doesn't disappoint and is viewable even at 60-70 degrees away from the screen.

I can't comment on the WD-73837's speaker sound quality as we have it hooked up through our entertainment system's speakers.

In conclusion we'd highly recommend the Mitsubishi WD-73837 DLP to anyone looking for a seriously good TV.

Mitsubishi WD-73837 73-Inch 1080p 120Hz Home Theater DLP HDTV