Customer Reviews

Toshiba 62HMX95 62 Inch Cinema Series DLP Rear Projection HDTV

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After several years I've finally remembered my login to this account and the only reason for digging around for the account info was to correct this review....

Shortly after the original posting (below) problems started to appear.

The lamp went out - not a big deal but within the 1st year?
(toshiba ended up with a class-action law suit related to their short lamp life)

The TV Guide has been out now 2 years and without it, my symbio recorders are now bricks - with out the guide, the symbio's will not record. Also over time, the previously recorded shows tend to lose quality, the title of the recording have changed to 'recorded show" and on a few, the sound goes out all together after 20-30 minutes of playback - this is a problem with the recording in that it always quits at the exact same point in the recording.

The remote has been a nightmare just after a few months.
To explain all the quirks with the remote would require a novel but just to list a few...
Most of the buttons no longer respond unless you jump up and down on them (ok slightly over kill but not by much!)
Press any button and the remotes back lighting comes on - a pita in that it wastes battery life.
Press any number of keys and the TV turns off
Press the 8 key (or any number of other keys) and the TV responds "not available" so changing channels gets to be interesting

Direct tuning to HD channels escapes me, the only way I've found to get to the HD channels (like 37-1) is to get to the main channel (37) then hit the up/down button - slow when some of the channels have over 15 sub channels (37-15)

Surfing channels is slow, if you want to go from channel to channel, expect several seconds to go by until the tuner can lock on to the channel, longer for HD channels (required when the TV Guide quits working and you're tired of reruns)

The quality of the picture is as good as it the day I purchased it though most, if not everything I watch is in SD

Now that I've had the set a few years I give it 2 stars, and I only rate it that high because it still turns on, but as far as ever buying another product from Toshiba, not going to happen. Had I waited a few more weeks, the original review would never have been written.

Original Post-----

I've owned this TV now for about 6 months and spent almost 3 months researching large screen TV's and got this for a steal, the TV, stand and a Symbio including inside delivery for just under $2000

The quality of the picture on most channels (none-HD) are great, but if the channel isn't clear, you'll notice the distortion a lot more than on a smaller set. The sound quality for me is great. I have an older pioneer surround and find the sound is sometimes better from the TV alone. Unless I'm really in the mood for theater sound, the internal speakers are my #1 choice.

I had originally hoped to be able to keep up with my shows while I worked on the computer by using the split screen feature, 2 31" screens would have been sweet but I soon found out the split screen feature has a lot of short comings, and using the PC in a window is one of them... So is using the split screen on two devices that requires the tuner. I have both cable and satelite and ended up moving the satelite to the AV inputs to work around the problem and connected an HD ant to the second coax input. Another 'issue' i have is not so much with the TV itself but with it's operation with the Symbio - related once again to the single tuner. If you want to use it like the old VCR's where you can watch one show and record another, forget it, the Toshiba changes the channel and starts recording, at this time most functions are locked out until recording stops.

I had to make a call to Toshiba when the TV guide stopped working, i was surprised and pleased to be able to talk with someone based in the US that spoke english. The tech was friendly and helpfull and worked out my problem within about 20 minutes and also found the bios on my set was a few revisions behind and sent me and update (which corrected a few of the networking issues the TV had).

A few features that I didn't find out until I started going through the menus was the ability to program the TV via email and play MP3's and display photos from a network server. They also have short comings in that if you play MP3's, thats all it does, theres no way to play the MP3's and display the photos at the same time, no big loss but not much thought put into the design of it.

If the ability to view the computer at the same time you watch another source worked I would say this is one set I would buy again no questions asked.

Bought this TV a few months ago. Have been very pleased with it so far. Excellent picture quality for both DVDs and HD TV. I get the HD TV signal from a Terk antenna - it is fun to watch the games on this TV.

The speakers are great. Connect it to a signal upping DVD player and a 5.1 (we have 7.1) speaker system, you may soon forget going to the movie theaters!

This model has the best looks among the available large screen TVs. Buy with a matching stand to further enhance the looks.

Tons of input/output connections available at the back and the front/side.

We love it.