Toshiba 37HL95 37-Inch Cinema Series Flat-Panel LCD HDTV

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 36.1 x 26 x 4.3 inches ; 85 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 78 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.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000AREGUS
• Item model number: 37HL95
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #208,011 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Save space and enjoy a wonderfully vivid picture with the stylish, 37-inch Toshiba 37HL95 widescreen LCD TV, a great choice for your living room's entertainment center. It has a built-in analog/digital (NTSC/ATSC) tuner that will receive free over-the-air HDTV signals and is Digital Cable Ready (via the CableCard slot), so you can enjoy digital cable without an additional box or remote using an optional CableCard. It also comes with TV Guide On Screen and Toshiba's innovative Channel Browser "back" button feature--similar to a PC browser back button--that allows easy access to recently viewed channels. The 37HL95 makes it easy to connect to brilliant imagery with its component and HDMI connections, and it can also double as a PC monitor.

The 37HL95's video is powered by the PixelPure AT digital video processor, which offers motion adaptive de-interlacing, adaptive MPEG processing, and adaptive contrast and color enhancement for a consistently high picture quality. The HD Dynamic Contrast feature increases Contrast and Color Saturation to create deep, rich images, analyzing both the dark and bright areas of the picture, and separately optimizing the dynamic range in each area of the picture.

The 37HL95 has a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio--perfect for high-definition telecasts and DVD movies--1366 x 768-pixel resolution, fast 12 ms (millisecond) response time, wide 170-degree viewing angle, 500 cd/m2 (candela per square meter) brightness rating, and amazing 600:1 contrast ratio. (The higher the contrast ratio, the greater a TV's ability to display subtle color details and not get washed out by ambient room light.) It supports 720p (HDTV), 480p (EDTV), and 480i (SDTV) video formats.

The 3D Y/C digital comb filter constantly analyzes the three dimensions of picture height, picture width, and picture changes-over-time, to reduce dramatically edge image artifacts while improving transition detail. The Digital Cinema progressive scan (3-2 inverse pulldown) function provides accurate, smooth film reproduction. Other features include a sleep timer, V-Chip parental controls, color temperature adjustment, tri-lingual on-screen menus (English, French, Spanish), channel labeling, and closed captioning on mute.

The 37HL95 has two stereo speakers that provide 10 watts of power per channel (for 20 watts of total power) and SRS 3D and SRS WOW virtual surround sound modes. This TV offers the following video and audio connections:

• Composite AV (RCA) In: 3 (1 side)
• S-Video In: 1
• Component Video In (Y PB PR): 2
• HDMI In: 1
• RF In: 2
• VGA 15-Pin D-Sub: 1
• Digital Optical Audio Out: 1
• Headphone: 1

Tech Talk
HDMI -- HDMI makes an uncompressed digital RGB connection from the source to the screen. By eliminating conversion to an analog signal, it delivers an unblemished image. The non-degraded signal reduces flicker and leads to a clearer picture. HDMI intelligently communicates the highest output resolution with the source device. The HDMI input is fully backward compatible with DVI sources but includes digital audio. HDMI uses HDCP copy protection.

What's in the Box
LCD TV, remote control (with batteries), stand, AV cable, printed operating instructions

Product Description

One of Toshiba's TheaterWide Series, this LCD TV has a 16:9, 37" screen with built in speakers so you'll be able to save the space in your home for something other than your video/audio components. This integrated HDTV comes with a large list of options, such as PixelPure, DVI-HDTV digital input with HDCP, and HD Window POP features.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow-wee wow, wow... Wow, wow, wow!, October 26, 2005

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Yvonne "yvonne333" (Aliso Viejo, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 37HL95 37-Inch Cinema Series Flat-Panel LCD HDTV (Electronics)

Wow-wee wow, wow... Wow, wow, wow!

Ok, maybe you can tell I'm a bit excited about this Toshiba 37HL95. Who would have thought I could have gotten this excited over a bunch of chips and wires, but WOW!

For the longest time I was use to viewing my neighbor's Sony KDE-50XS955 50" Wega Plasma because our last bedroom TV (starts with a Z and it's bENITH [yes, I know I'm spelling the beneath wrong] me why my husband wanted to keep that crummy TV over my other awesome Toshiba) died. I figured, "how could anyone top that Sony?" --Easy, our new Toshiba 37HL95 does the job perfectly.

First off, my Toshiba is an LCD, not a Plasma. It weighs less (only 26 lbs total vs. 88 lbs+) and is only 36w x 26h x 4d inches. The image color is pure and crystal clear and you can easily adjust it to meet your room lighting needs ("Normal", "Preferred" [which we chose and is the second brightest and most vivid], "Sports" and of course "Theatre"). The fine details on actors' skin are amazing! I can finally see movies the way they were meant to be seen since the 37HL95 is a Widescreen TV.

Another "wow" feature is the HDMI connection and the CableCard slot. The HDMI delivers an absolutely flawless image. The non-degraded signal reduces flicker and produces an ideal picture. Since we use a cable service, we chose the HDMI connection. Even the regular digital shows come out looking fabulous. It has a built-in analog/digital tuner that will receive free over-the-air HDTV signals and is Digital Cable Ready (via the CableCard slot), so you can enjoy digital cable without a box or remote using a CableCard (sorry, you gotta buy that from your cable company). For a lack of space, CableCard can come in handy.

I also love the fact that I can treat this as an extra PC monitor if I needed. There is a connection on the side and on the back to hook up my laptop, my camcorder or my digital camera.

Even though the 37HL95 comes with a table mount, we have a small apartment and the wall is the best place. To have it mounted on a wall was a piece of cake. I chose to have an OmniMount UCL Universal Plasma TV Cantilever Wall Mount to hold up our new LCD (that's what Toshiba recommended). Now we can move the Toshiba all over the room, high or low, pull it close or push it away and our TV is where we want it to be. Even if we didn't push the 37HL95 around the room, you can still see the screen perfectly, from where ever you are in the room. That was a problem with LCD's, but not with the 37HL95... no graying or weird shadowing.

Sound isn't bad. It comes with one large speaker at the bottom and if I really wanted to let `er rip, I could probably blast my upstairs neighbor out of her apartment. I'd prefer to have the bottom speaker removable, but that would only come from the perfect TV. You could easily hook up a Home Theatre and blast the paint off the walls, but sad to say, there is amazingly only one Digital Optical Audio Output and ZERO Digital Optical Audio Input.

Whew! What else can I say about the Toshiba 37HL95... and why did Toshiba wait so long to release it in the US? All I can tell you is the picture and features are wonderful. The downside is the Digital Optical Audio Output/Input (only one output and no input), the non-moveable speaker and the lack of PIP (Picture in Picture). Quite frankly, the downside isn't that big of a deal. We'll live.

If I had a choice to buy the Toshiba 37HL95 again, would I do it? Absolutely!

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High wow factor - excellent value, November 17, 2005

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Brendan A. MacWade (New York, NY, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba 37HL95 37-Inch Cinema Series Flat-Panel LCD HDTV (Electronics)

Toshiba has been balancing quality, design, and price since the late 1990's, and in my opinion, they are the best competitor to Sony, which is still regarded the best TV in the business. Toshiba now has a 37" flat panel LCD monitor that is low-maintenance, high-quality, and well-designed. I purchased their 27HL85 a few weeks ago for my bedroom, and this was the logical choice for the living room. The two sets are identical in specs, except for contrast ratio, which defines how "black' black tones appear on the set. The 27" model has an outstanding contrast ratio of 900:1. This set has a less spectacular ratio of 600:1. The best LCD flat panel monitors can have a ratio of 1000:1. ut I have to say that having switched from an LCD rear-projection TV with a ratio of about 300:1, this big TV is a very nice upgrade. Like most budget HDTV's, it really shines when you watch a DVD through the component input, or watch a high-definition 720p broadcast (usually sports is shown in 720p). Considering that Toshiba's only other 37" flat panel has a contrast ratio of 800:1 for $500 more, and the value of this unit becomes clear.

I also like Toshiba for their quality. All my Toshiba's have lasted more than 10 years since I started buying them in 1985. My 1985 TV was sold used in 1996 and I wouldn't be surprised if it is in-use today. I know my 1997 unit is in-use as well.

And a key feature that Toshiba has that Sony doesn't have is closed-captioning on mute. When you mute the TV, closed-captioning kicks-in. It's a simple bonus, but it makes a huge difference if you have to take a phone call or want to multitask (like put music on) if the program you're watching doesn't require close attention.

And with HDMI input, this TV is future-proof. So you get size, quality, cool design, low maintenance, and the reliability of Toshiba. Go for it!

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Problems with 32HL95, February 23, 2006

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C. Kinard "chuck" (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 37HL95 37-Inch Cinema Series Flat-Panel LCD HDTV (Electronics)

Based upon my experience, I could not recommend this be purchased online. I did see the set at a dealer, and it seemed to perform fine.

I ordered the set from Amazon.com on 26 Dec 2005. Amazon brokered the unit to One Call. OneCall shipped the unit on 27 Dec. When I received the unit, it had a column of LED's out (verticle red line on set). OneCall required me to go thru the local Toshiba warranty facility to evaluate set. On 14 Jan, the locl warranty rep evaluated the set and stated that the LCD panel needs to be replaced. OneCall gave me authorization to return & exchange the set. I returned the set to Spokane WA on 20 Jan at my expense.

The replacement was shipped to me on 26 Jan. The replacement has a loud mechanical hum whenever a signal is applied. OneCall stated their terms & conditions do not permit returns. I was to have the local warranty technician come back to look at this set. The local tech does not know what the problem is. It went into their shop 2 weeks ago so they can work with Toshiba America to see what's wrong. As of 2/23 the set is still in the shop.

My experience with two different Toshiba HDTVs has not been very good.