TOSHIBA 47LX196 XHD 1080P HD LCD TV

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 44.7 x 29.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 144 pounds
• ASIN: B000JI922A
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #342,352 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars ghost bars/gray bands ruin otherwise beautiful TV, February 9, 2007

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A. Chao (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TOSHIBA 47LX196 XHD 1080P HD LCD TV (Electronics)

I got this just before Christmas 06, was very excited when I got it. First 10 minutes were of sheer awe and happiness of a kind rarely duplicated. Then, I sat down to watch Lawrence of Arabia on it. Within about 20 minutes of the movie, I noticed that on the big desert scenes, or the sunrise/set scenes, I could see these strange gray bars/bands running vertically on the TV. The horizontal location is approx where SD TV would letter box to, they were on both sides (but worse on the left). So you don't notice it on SD content, but if you are viewing wide content, you see it. The appearance is like someone draped very thin gray cloth over parts of the TV, definitely not something you'd expect from a $3300 TV. No, I am not talking about the thin wires in old Sony Trinitron TV/monitors, those can be ignored because they are very very thin, these are like bands like 4" wide.

Anyway, after a month and a half of waiting for a replacement to come to the dealer I bought it from, I finally got fed up and exchanged it for a Samsung LN-S4695D. Yes, it is a cheaper TV, my dealer was being a jerk, he wanted more money for any other TV. But, at least now, I can enjoy the HDTV without these annoying gray bands, which is something you think would be expected for the price of these TVs.

I was especially disappointed since the 47LZ196 is NOT Toshiba's budget TV, it is their TOP of the line LCD TV. And to have these sort of image quality issues is just not acceptable.

Now if you look around, there is talk on various forums (avsforums most notably), that models with a build date after Dec 06 didn't have the banding issue. Mine was Sept 06 FYI.

Aside from this problem, the TV was gorgeous, no complaints about other aspects of the TV, just the banding was killer.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Home Theater, May 7, 2007

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Mosky "reader, crafter, cook" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: TOSHIBA 47LX196 XHD 1080P HD LCD TV (Electronics)

This is a terrific TV. The HD picture is gorgeous. We had one possible issue with our Verizon FIOS service, and Toshiba sent a tech to check things out within about 2 hours of our calling (there was nothing wrong with the TV...it was a tricky FIOS installation in our older home). The controls are fairly easy to navigate (they allow for programming several peripherals), and the manual answers most questions. We are considering another Toshiba HD for elsewhere in the house

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great picture before it goes black, August 12, 2008

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Scott - See all my reviews

This review is from: TOSHIBA 47LX196 XHD 1080P HD LCD TV (Electronics)

I bought this TV because I wanted a quality product..This TV has a great picture and the salesman claimed it was the best Quality available but after 1 year the picture is black. $400 to fix it - BUY A SONY or go to Wal-Mart and buy a cheap flat screen. This does not seem to be isolated to this model but a Toshiba problem and Toshiba seems to look at is as the consumers problem.