Toshiba REGZA Cinema Series 46SV670U 46-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV with LED Backlight and ClearScan 240, Black
- 1080p Full HD CineSpeed™ Display with Built In ATSC/QAM Digital Tuner for Over-the-Air and Cable-in-the-Clear Digital Tuning
- FocaLight™ LED Backlight with Local Dimming
- 2,000,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio
- ClearScan 240™ with New Backlight Scanning Technology
- 4 HDMI™ Digital Inputs (1 Side) with InstaPort™ and REGZA-LINK®2
Product Description
The New REGZA Cinema Series LED TV is the most advanced, most beautiful TV we’ve ever produced. Our advanced FocaLightTM LED Backlight System with Local Dimming, and stunning new Deep LagoonTM Design with Infinity Flush FrontTM, create the perfect combination of high quality and stylish appeal…. More >>
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I purchased a new Regza in June 2009. Three months later the picture has vertical blue lines and when red is displayed, I get vertical red lines running from top to bottom. They fade in and out when each color is displayed on the screen. Very distracting for an expensive TV. I called Toshiba and they didn’t seem to care. I looked on you tube and found others that have the same problems.
Would I buy another Toshiba Regza ? Hell no.
Now, I have to find a repair center and haul it over there. Lucky me.
I think I’ll try Samsung LED next. No more LCD’s
If you own a Regza now, better hope is doesn’t start the vertical line crap.
Rating: 2 / 5
Just to let you know Underhill, Samsung doesn’t make a single LED TV, they make an LCD that’s backlit with LED lights instead of CCFL lights. The only LED you can purchase right now is a 12 inch LED from Sony which runs about $7000, that is a TV screen made up of lots of tiny LED lights. The “Samsung’s LED” TV’s as they call them are nothing but a traditional Liquid Crystal Display like any other LCD except the lights behind them are different. Plus the Samsung one isn’t totally backlit only edge lit so the contrast in the middle of the picture isn’t the same as the outer edges. So do some research before you buy, LG and Sony both make very good fully LED backlit LCD TV’s, not just edge lit, so you get much more even contrast across the whole screen plus the benefit of “Local Dimming.”
Rating: 5 / 5
After sniffing out specs on new HDTVs we went to the store to try to compare screens (mostly between the Sharp Aquos, Sony Bravia, and Samsung – in that order.) In the end we decided this one had the best overall brightness and clarity. (This wasn’t so easy to determine though because all of the stores feed crappy (relatively), and varying signals into the TVs so that it is difficult if not impossible to compare them. Why? I don’t know.)
After using this TV for a month, I’m still very happy with it. Compare that to my experience with our previous HDTV, a DLP type Samsung. This TV starts fast (relatively) and the sound is good even from the built-in speakers. I’m much, much happier with the screen and general response time. Switching channels, turning on, turning off; these may sound like no-brainers but the Samsung DLP would sometimes take over a minute to start, almost as long shutting off, and even took tens of seconds on occasion to switch channels. Also this TV uses about 50% less power than the DLP and was about as low-power as anything in this size of TV we found (because of the LED backlighting it uses less lighting power.)
The main flaw with the Samsung came when it failed completely (green screen of death) after only a little more than two years of use. The problem appeared to be on the board that controls TV signal decoding. Because that problem is possible with any display tech, I’ll just have to wait and see if this TV turns out to be more reliable/long lasting. For now it is an order of magnitude improvement over the Samsung DLP, and appeared to have better image quality than the current competition.
Some drawbacks that keep it from perfect scores:
1) There is a border around the screen several inches wide. Obviously the closer to edge-to-edge screen the better since the rest is just distracting away from the image.
2) (a complete surprise!) there is only one coaxial input on the TV. We have been using analog cable and HD over the antennae (airwave broadcast) for years. With this TV, it took us a while to figure out that we could still do this by buying a coaxial switch. Unfortunately that means that to switch from Antennae to Cable requires flipping the manual switch and then changing a setting from the remote control menu. This is tiresome so we have all but abandoned the cable channels completely (on this TV anyway.)
Non-issues: some complain that this TV is too thick (mostly compared to the Samsung model.) We don’t wall mount, so for us this is a complete non-issue as you can’t tell how thin it is in the entertainment stand. I suppose others might prefer the svelte look of the Samsung but there is something to be said about people who would buy a TV for the look of the case over the look of the TV image it produces (and the reliability of the product too given my previous experience with Samsung TVs.)
Rating: 4 / 5
This TV is a superb TV!!! The colors POP because the black levels are the best on the market, 240hz refresh rate makes sports look AWESOME!!! Not a better TV out there, especially for the price!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased this TV on Jan 2, 2010. This is a great TV and the picture is awesome. The on screen menu is okay and slightly complicated for those that are not tech savvy and there are many things in the book you really need to read.
This TV has the newest in technology when it comes to picture quality and it could have improved on the sound quality, but most of us having TVs like this hooked up with surround sound systems. The speakers are hidden and there are preset sound outputs you can have to create standard and simulated surround sound from two speakers.
Other than the picture, the TV has an issue with the sound. When you play a DVD disc from a regular DVD player with HDMI capabilites to this TV, the sound garbles and reverberation begins afer an hour of play. Toshiba America says I am and a group of people have this rare problem. They did not offer to fix it and they said they were working on the problem. What does that sound like to you?
So, I purchased the newest Toshiba BDX2000 Blu-ray player and played a blu-ray movie with the sound output from the TV and the sound never garbled throughout the movie or even skipped a beat, Great!
I then played a regular DVD disc on the blu-ray player and after an hour of play, the sound starts garbling from the TV again. Toshiba had instructed me to turn off certain features to prevent this, under the HDMI settings, you are to turn off Deep color, lip sync and instaport. If it did not resolve the issue then use RGB (red,green and Blue) cables instead of the HDMI cable and for the sound, use left/right audio patch cords.
We as consumers or customers should not have to fiddle around with this.
We buy these expensive TVs to utilize the newest technology, HDMI.
The cabling is not an issue. The versions of cabling is another gimmic for manufacturers to charge you
big money for pretty cables.
I was going to retire the older DVD player, but instead kept it to play DVD disc with the RGB cabling and the sound connected through my stereo so I did not have to keep dealing with the garbled sound. I have over 600 DVD movies. I now have one blu-ray player with no blu-ray discs.
So, you make the choice. Do you want to be apart of the rare group of people with this problem and how will you know if yo are getting a good set or not.
Rating: 3 / 5