Toshiba 50H71 50-Inch HDTV-Ready Projection TV

by Toshiba

Product Details

Product Manual [3.33mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 21 x 42.4 x 50.8 inches ; 217 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 239 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: B00005NJ5Y
• Item model number: 50H71
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #378,382 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great compact projection TV, April 8, 2002

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Aaron (San Francisco Bay Area, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 50H71 50-Inch HDTV-Ready Projection TV (Electronics)

I highly recommend this TV. The picture is superb, both with a DISH satellite receiver and with a DVD player. The sound quality is as good as I've heard from internal speakers; I am using it as a center channel for my home theater and am quite satisfied. This TV is very compact and looks good. The glare and center channel input keep it from getting a 5 star rating.

High Points
* Great picture (line doubler works very well)
* Good sound quality
* Great remote/menu system

Minor Gripes
* Glare can be somewhat distracting. The more expensive "HX" line from Toshiba has a screen coating to supposedly help. Also, I've read the screen protector can be placed behind the screen to eliminate glare.
* TV can be used as center channel speaker only from line-level inputs, not speaker level inputs.

Overall, one heck of a TV.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the Risk After All, March 27, 2002

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edcaroleg "edcaroleg" (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba 50H71 50-Inch HDTV-Ready Projection TV (Electronics)

We had reservations about the purchase of so complicated a product by E-mail. On arrival our fears seemed justified, the picture was rotated about 15 deg. Several calls were required to Toshiba before a local service center could be found that would perform warranty work on a set not purchased at their facility. One agreed but said they couldn't come for three weeks!? Finally, we located one that came in two days. The serviceman aligned everything; color, symmetry, focus, etc. It made a tremendous difference in the picture. Actually, we were fortunate that the set required adjustment. This procedure should be part of the delivery of every television set!! Sound is good for built-in speakers but no match for the clean, transparent sound of a good quality component system. (Bose for example.) Reliability remains to be seen, but initial picture quality is so good, (at least the equal of anything, regardless of brand, we have seen at shops and friends,) that the several anxious days we spent wondering if we had made an expensive mistake, now seems worth it!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Picture Great...TV..not so much., November 20, 2002

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Toshiba fan no more (Portsmouth, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 50H71 50-Inch HDTV-Ready Projection TV (Electronics)

The picture on this television was very nice. I state that the picture was great but the TV..not so much. I had 3 different Toshiba 50" HDTVs delivered to my house. All three of which had the same damage. The bottom right and left corners of the screen encasement were cracked in half. I gave the rating of 3 because the TV picture I enjoyed, but it is hard to actually enjoy a 1500 dollar television when it is cosmetically flawed everytime it shows up at my door.