Toshiba 20HL67 20" Portable LCD HDTV (Review)
Toshiba 20HL67 20" Portable LCD HDTV
| Average Customer Rating: 5.0 |
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| Great picture, superb in HD (directly from cable at no extra price due to QAM tuner), excellent sound.
Incredible price. I recommend it with all my heart. I purchased the Toshiba 20HL67 LCD TV for my mom as a Mothers Day present this year. The picture on this TV is outstanding. Colors are very accurate out of the box, and black levels are very good for a LCD TV. The QAM tuner allows for unscrambled HD feeds passed over cable TV to be displayed without a cable box. The QAM tuner on this Toshiba is more accurate than the one in my JVC 32" LCD TV, allowing for stations to be slotted into their correct locations. The zoom modes provided on this Toshiba are great for making traditional 4:3 aspect programing fill the screen. I've also hooked up an older Aiwa, non progressive scan, DVD player via the component inputs. The Toshiba does a fine job of upconverting the 480i signal to the 768P resolution of the TV. A Progressive scan or an upconverting DVD player is not an essental add on, an older DVD player hooked up to the component video inputs (red, blue and green) will do fine with this TV. I have not hooked a VCR up to the TV to see how it would perform with a sub NTSC quality signal. The main disadvantages of this TV are the remote sensor is in the lower right hand corner of the TV and the lack of a digital audio output. If your TV is in a cabinet, like my mom's is, the remote sensor won't have the range on the right hand side of the room. I prefer older TVs where the remote sensor is in the center of the TV. My mom has to get out of her bed to change channels or turn the TV off. Most other 20" LCDs, have the sensor in the lower right hand corner too, so this is a flaw across the board. As far as the lack of a digital audio output, there is neither a coaxial or optical audio output. However, I doubt many people are going to use this TV for home theater, so this is not a make or break missing feature to 98% of people looking at 20" LCD TVs. Overall Toshiba did a great job with this TV. I highly recomend this TV to anyone that needs or wants a 20" LCD. |
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