Customer Reviews

Toshiba REGZA 42RV535U 42-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV

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This is my first LCD TV and I'm very happy with it. Spent a lot of time over the last month checking out various 40-47" LCD TVs and finally decided on the Toshiba REGZA 42RV535U because of its quality and price (total $912). Due to my experience with both Toshiba and Samsung I favored these brands but there's no shortage of attractive LCDs to choose from many companies. Samsung costs more and offered no competitive model or price to this Toshiba. I found the Toshiba XD-E500 upconversion DVD player online for $76, which produces an excellent picture on the 42RV535U. Add the $13 I spent for 3 HDMI 6' cables (online too) and I'm watching HDTV for a grand total Of $1001! The non-HD TV channels look good too (I'm on Time Warner cable) and in my small living room the sound (cranked up) has proven to be more than adequate. I have checked up on the Sony HT-CT100 Sound Bar Home Theater and may add it later. I have no Blu-Ray plans for present - will take some convincing and much price dropping for me to participate.

My wife and I physically set up the TV on its stand and placed it in position. If you know what you're doing, the electronic part of the setup should be brief but I took longer fumbling a bit over the cable box/TV accommodations. But all went well finally.

Let me add perhaps the most important thing. Once set up, I restarted the Marvin Gaye at Montreux DVD that I had been using to hook up the XD-E500 and let it rip. What a reward for all the effort of buying this TV - my TV watching will never be the same.

Ok , so I bought this T.V. about six months ago and i couldn't be happier with it. The picture was crisp the sound was on point. I had no problems with it, until yesterday when it stopped working. Apparently the power supply died in it, so after doing some researched i learned that mine wasn't the only one this happened to. Thank god it was still under warranty and Toshiba is going to pay for parts and labor to fix it. But I'm kinda disappointed that it happened in a six month period with such an expensive T.V. I guess they just don't make things like they use to.

1) your kidding, now it is under $900 on Amazon, I bought it for $1200 at Worst Buy 6 months ago!! Yikes.

2) had tv for 6 months, light use, maybe an hour a day, a couple on weekends. Watching "Its a wonderful life" on X-mas eve, the TV just shuts off, no reason, it was just dead, nothing could be done.

3) called Toshiba customer service, got a TV person to come and pick it up pretty fast, but now a month later, it sits in the shop waiting for "parts."

This totally sucks, will never buy Toshiba again. Beautiful TV, it was perfect for us when working but it died, no reason, no abuse on our part, just died.

And who knows how long it will be gone? Very dissapointed with Toshiba, they need a recall of the power board inside or something. Sucks.

The Toshiba is terrific. A great Picture for sports and Nature shows.Feel like you are there.

I bought this tv from a retailer. 14 months later, the tv would not return to ready after a SHORT power outage. The yellow standby light just blinked three times over and over. The manual said this was normal and when it was ready to start it would go to a green light. No it wouldn't. Manual and Toshiba site said to hold the power button on the cabinet in for five seconds and it would reset it. This worked...twice. The Toshiba site said unplug it for an hour. This worked...once. Now at 18 months, a short power outage from a summer storm knocked it back to the yellow lights. After four days, it is still blinking yellow. I tried every trick I could find short of putting socks and shoes on it. I found this is a common problem with this model. The store will evaluate the problem for $189. The repair to the board that has gone south is $600 parts and labor. Again, I am not the only victim of this shoddy equipment. Toshiba basically told me they weren't concerned with it since it's out of warranty. So, research the model on the net and see for youself. If you have one of these, be scanning the ads for a new tv soon, it will fail. Toshiba says they won't order a recall since the model has been replaced with this new one you're looking at now. The new one has the same boards. $1300 dollars for 18 months service.

Great picture. Blacks are black, and colors are deep and rich. The auto view is a great setting that will adjust to the room's lighting and automatically select the brightness and other picture settings. Loads of inputs, a total of 4 HDMI. Perfect for connecting my cable box, 360, Blu-Ray and still have an extra to spare. The built in game mode and low response time make it a great TV for gaming. No noticeable lag so FPSs play great. The best thing about this TV is the price. I did a lot of research and a lot of people agree this is a great TV at a great price. Competes with Sony and Samsung's lineup.

If I could find any cons for this set: The back panel is too close to the edge of the TV, not really a problem because it makes for easy access, but it may cause a pain for cable management.

Blu-Ray is still the way to go, but even playing DVDs upconverted to 1080p looks amazing on this set. If you want a quality picture and don't feel like dropping the cash on Blu-Ray, invest in a nice upscaling player.

Wow, what an amazing TV. Colors looks great. Blacks look black. No dead/stuck pixels. Honestly, I couldn't be happier.

I, currently, have both a PS3 and 360 hooked up via HDMI and the picture quality is on par with other high priced sets. Blu-ray looks fantastic. What can I say... I love 1080p!

Menus aren't too bad, either. Not as good as Sony's, but still, there are many options it's fairly easy to navigate.

If you're looking for a decently priced HDTV, look no further. Picture quality is outstanding and the set itself looks very nice with its piano black exterior.

I had been avoiding the purchase of an HDTV for several years, however with the lower prices as of late, I couldn't resist. A great bit of research and reading of reviews led me to the Toshiba REGZA line, which boasted a fantastic set of features at prices much lower than the equivalent models. After playing with my TV for about a month now, I couldn't be happier. It plays TV, Movies and my PS3 + Wii fantasticly, no ghosting, extremely sharp, great color and contrast.

The most important thing to me and the ultimate reason I went with this model is because of its great upconversion abilities. Non-HD programs often look terrible on HDTV's, and you never get to see what they look like in the stores as they always play High def programs. The REGZA line has a great upconversion processor in it, which makes standard definition look quite smooth and clear, all things considered.

Just a small warning however: I had a very strange issue with it regarding the auto brigtness sensor. For whatever reason, TV's with this feature sometimes block your cable box remote IR signal, which can be quite frustrating. When I tried to use my cable box remote, it only worked if it was directly touching the box. After disabling that feature however, my remote worked just fine. So if you seem to be having the same problem, dont blame the tv or the cable company, just turn off this feature in the TV menu.

White Glove Delivery-(CEVA) On time and very courteous. TV is outstanding. Good picture with 480 DirectTV and Great with over the air 1080 hd. Picture is customizable to preference. Sound stabilization is as advertised-no glaring commercials.

I purchased this model from Amazon.com mid Feb. 2009 and it died in September 2010. I called Toshiba, they confirmed I was out of warranty but said to fax them all details and they would see if they could help. Bottom line is they just don't care....you feel as if you might get a "little' help from them but the final word is take it to a Toshiba service center for repair. Same darn blinking yellow light, same efforts to solve without success. Total cost to me in repair $466. I knew Toshiba wouldn't repair the thing; I just wanted them to sell me the motherboard at a discounted price so the final repair wouldn't knock me over. I will never buy another Toshiba product again and I'm telling all my friends and anyone who will listen.....DON'T BUY THIS TV OR ANY TOSHIBA PRODUCT.