| Reviews : Toshiba 37HLC56 37-Inch LCD Tunerless HD-Ready Monitor |
Technical Details
- Tunerless 37-inch LCD high-definition monitor
- Requires optional receiver or cable/satellite set-top box to receive all TV programming--no built-in NTSC tuner
- Fast 8ms (millisecond) response time, 1366 x 768-pixel resolution, 500 cd/m2 brightness, 900:1 contrast ratio
- Inputs: 1 composite, 1 S-Video, 1 component, 1 HDMI, 1 PC VGA, 1 RF
- Two stereo speakers, 10 watts apiece (20 watts total); SRS WOW virtual surround sound
Product Description
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The sleekly styled 37-inch Toshiba 37HLC56 HD-ready monitor features the company's latest LCD panel technology--Cinespeed--and an expanded viewing angle of 176 degrees. With no internal tuner (either standard NTSC or digital ATSC), the 37HLC56 requires an optional tuner or cable/satellite set-top box to receive standard- and high-definition television programming. It's easy to connect to brilliant imagery with the component and HDMI connections--the latter offering pure digital audio/video performance with no degradation of signal from just one convenient cable. This set also offers Toshiba's exclusive HD Dynamic Contrast function, which provides a sharper, deeper image with rich colors and a more life-like image.It offers compatibility with all HDTV formats (480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i) and it has a 1366 x 768-pixel resolution. It also features a 16:9 aspect ratio, 500 cd/m2 (candela per square meter) brightness rating, and an exceptional 900:1 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.) The Cinespeed panel provides a very fast 8ms (millisecond) response time, which is great for watching fast-moving sports and action movies. Toshiba's PixelPure AT (Adaptive Technology) includes Motion Adaptive De-Interlacing, Adaptive MPEG Processing, Adaptive Contrast Enhancement, and Adaptive Color Enhancement--all critical elements to deliver a consistently high quality picture.
Convenience features include color temperature control, auto aspect ratio detection, closed captioning on mute, sleep timer, tri-lingual on-screen display, video input labeling, channel labeling, channel/video lock, and V-Chip parental controls.
The 4 MB, 10-bit digital 3D Y/C comb filter (with vertical contour correction) separates brightness and color signals better in 3D domain to eliminate cross-color, cross-luminance and dot-crawl distortion. It performs field-by-field comparisons of the television image to accurately separate the color from the black-and-white information and remove both horizontally and vertically hanging dots, as well as dot crawl, resulting in a razor sharp image. 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 Cinema Mode feature performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture. This set also offers several TheaterWide modes that expand letterboxed images--which is particularly useful when watching narrow letterboxed Panavision or CinemaScope films.
This set has two stereo speakers that provide 10 watts of power per channel (for 20 watts of total power) and SRS WOW virtual surround sound. The StableSound feature maintains television volume within a preset range regardless of the source signal. This helps to eliminate the annoyance of normal program volume being followed immediately by extremely loud commercial messages or drastic volume fluctuations while changing channels. It features the following video and audio connections:
- Composite A/V: 2
- S-Video: 1
- Component Video: 1
- HDMI: 1
- PC VGA: 1
Tech Talk
HDMI is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. HDMI supports standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. It supports all ATSC formats--standard (SDTV), enhanced (EDTV), and high (HDTV).
SRS WOW virtual surround sound processing technology consists of three separate sound expanding systems, which work together to extract "buried" highs and lows. The three systems are, SRS 3D, TruBass, and FOCUS. SRS 3D creates a three dimensional sound field from just two speakers, thus giving the listener the feeling of hearing a multi speaker surround sound system. TruBass produces a powerful, yet low, frequency sound by utilizing a process called psychoacoustics. From only two small speakers, TruBass will give the effect of an expensive sub bass woofer that will leave the listener amazed by the quality of the sound. FOCUS was added to direct the energy from the speakers of the television set in a vertical direction up towards the listenerÕs ears. The addition of FOCUS means that there is virtually no loss of sound from the speakerÕs position on the bottom panel near the floor, which achieves a clear, undistorted range of audio.
What's in the Box
LCD high-definition monitor, remote control (with batteries), tabletop stand, power cable, printed operating instructions
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Customer Reviews
By J. Blake (La Porte, Tx USA)
Bought TV for the bedroom. I have owned it for a month. TV has excellent picture. Have HD digital cable. Picture compares favorably with 1080p Samsung in the den. DVD's also look good. Easy hookup. On screen menu easy to use. Easy to adjust settings. Sound is very good for the size of the speakers. I have been very happy with this TV.
By Robert Thoms (Cambridge MA USA)
Amazon somehow LOST this TV in transit. Rather than taking responsibility for the loss, they told me they had 10 more days to "find" it and that I should just sit and wait. I begged for a refund, which they would not give. They just kept telling me about their "policies" and how "correct" their associates were. Finally, a full two weeks after the loss, they agreed to refund the money.
The TV meanwhile (bought from Sears and in my car in 5 minutes for $300 less) is great!
Amazon: good prices, but you better hope you don't have any problems because their customer service is non-existant!
By William Lyman (Saint Helena, CA United States)
I bought this TV after two years of watching a fifteen-year-old twenty inch NEC, so naturally it benefits from the comparison. We only use it to watch DVDs and videos and we don't have a hi-def player so I don't know how it compares to other TVs in the hi-def mode, but it regular DVDs look bright, clean, and clear from a viewing distance of twelve feet. We Watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy and it showed up nicely on the 16/9 screen. The sound is tinny compared to the 20-year old Cerwin-Vega speakers through a cheap old Scott amplifier that we use when watching DVDs. For just over a thousand bucks it is a nice TV.
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