Customer Reviews

Toshiba 26HL84 26-Inch HD-Ready Flat-Panel LCD TV

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I prior purchased a Sharp 22" LCD TV and had it for about 6 weeks. It performed well but I wanted a bigger screen size.

I intended to buy the Sharp LC-26GA4U, but after observing the different LCD displays in the show room, (Sharp, Sony, Philips, Samsung and Toshiba), I could easily see the Sony and the Toshiba had a much better HD picture than the other brands. So I came home with the Toshiba CE 26" w HD LCD (26HL84) which is the new model Toshiba has to offer.

This LCD TV offers an outstanding, exceptionally crystal clear and sharp HD picture and when I hooked it up to my local Analog Cable system I was very pleased to observe that it continued to receive just about as clear a picture with Cable as it did with HD. I find that the TV Remote is easy to operate and the Aspect button on the remote is very handy.

One thing I noticed that was so much better with this wonderful Toshiba LCD over the 22" Sharp LCD is the way the Toshiba processes the more realistic looking Aspect modes. The Sharp is very nice but the Aspect modes are a little distorted and not natural looking as they are on the LCD Toshiba.

The way the Toshiba processes colors and especially RED and BLACK is incredible as well as natural looking skin tones. I noticed while looking at several different displayed manufactures that you do in fact notice considerable difference in how colors are displayed and especially how sharp the picture is being processed.That's why I chose the Toshiba over all others offered.

DVD's are displayed on this TV with eye-popping clarity. Also this Toshiba has a really great surround sound system.

Toshiba has a real winner with this outstanding LCD TV. I have owned this TV one week and I am very pleased with my purchase. I could not be happier.

I needed a mid-size TV to hang on the wall in my bedroom. Didn't want to spend close to $2K like some 20-something inch LCD TV's are. I checked out the Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic (others too?) at an electronics store. Sony was out of the price range, Sharp was in, but didn't have quite the pic quality that the Toshiba had in my opinion - but a close second. Didn't care for the Panasonic.

Now that it is home I like it a lot. It is very bright and colorful - even w/ the brightness, backlighting, or color settings on normal/default. DVD's look sharp thru component cables. Digital cable looks great too. Analog Cable is better than on my old CRT, but still a wee noisy. Still, analog cable looks pretty good.

Sound is very adequate for every day TV watching. Remote is suprisingly nice to use. I have it control my high end Denon AVR and DVD, cheap Sony CD and VCR players, and my cable box.

Jackpack is very nice w/ plenty of options, but don't expect to use all the inputs - you'll never route all those cables through the space Toshiba leaves you.

I have only two dissapointments with the TV:
1) The grey bars on 4:3 images are too light even on the darkest setting. I would prefer them to be black instead of grey.
2) Wish the remote was a learning remote and not just programmable. Biggest dissapointment is not having the menu/info buttons available for my digital cable box.

The design of speakers underneath the screen fulfilled my need for a widescreen LCD that would fit in the same cabinet that an old Sony XBR2 without speakers had occupied. I am satisfied with the picture quality and the ease of shifting between picture modes. The widescreen and the resolution prompted me to start watching my old laserdiscs again.

The purchase price was very good for what I received. Installation was really simple and the picture is fabulous. The only problem I have encountered is that I can not use all of the features of the remote because I have to have a cable box. However, some of the features are still available.
I love the TV and am waiting until this summer to buy a DVD recorder to go with it. I hear there are supposed to be some major changes to DVD recorders this summer.

I've had my Toshiba 26HL84 for about 3 months now. The picture is very good, although some analog stations don't look that great (but the HD channels are awesome!).

The only complaint I have is the DVI input. It appears to be DVI-D, not DVI-I which means I can't hook my laptop up to it using a VGA to DVI adapter. If you have a PC with a DVI-D output (like my desktop PC), then there's likely no problem. Also, I couldn't get my MOXI DVR box to work with the DVI output from it, but since the component video works fine, why bother

Great service, we received the product in 3 days. It was packaged well for shipping, and it came in by Fed X without any damage. The TV is great too just as we expected. Thanks for a job well done.