Toshiba REGZA-40RF350u Super Narrow 40 Inch 1080p LCD HDTV

5 out of 5: "Speakers look great and work great, all at a great price. In a word, great."
Date: October 2, 2009 Rated by Buyer: Allen E.

5 out of 5: "Great TV. If you are looking for a nice sized TV with a built in DVD player, I would recommend this one. Great picture, looks nice and great price. Standard shipping times."
Date: September 26, 2009 Rated by Buyer: manuelpubillones

5 out of 5: "My first TV/DVD was defective right out of the box. I called the seller; they agreed to send a new TV/DVD immediately and pick up the defectvie TV/DVD. It arrived on time and works fine. "
Date: September 19, 2009 Rated by Buyer: Donald S.

4 out of 5: "item arrived on 10th, however it was due to Labor day."
Date: September 16, 2009 Rated by Buyer: Xin L.

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This TV is absolutely gorgeous. For HD inputs, I'm using an Toshiba HD-A35 1080p HD DVD Player, a Panasonic HDC-SD5 Hi-Definition Palmcorder Camcorder BUNDLE, as well as an HTPC driving the TV at full resolution 1920x1080x60. Videos, HD DVD's, normal DVD's, PC games, web browsing, digital photo slideshows: all look completely stunning.

In addition to showing beautiful video, the physical design of the display is also excellent. The matte screen surface does not cause distracting reflections from lights in the room, and the very thin bezel makes for a very tasteful frame and allows the TV to fit in the middle of a wall where any other 40" display would be too big. One thing that really bothers me about other HDTV's is how much space is made for built-in speakers. This is part of a home theater, and I've got a 7.1 speaker system. I don't need cheap speakers on the TV and I definitely don't want to be reminded of them every time I look at the TV. This display does have some speakers, and they sound okay (as good as two closely spaced 10W speakers can sound, I suppose). As you can see from the images, the speakers are out of sight. Perfect for my needs, they're behind the screen on the bottom left and right, so they don't mess up the look of the unit. Overall, very appealing.

I expected that since the display is optimized as a TV, it wouldn't be that great as a computer display (computer LCD's normally have more of a screen door effect than LCD TV's so that the pixel boundaries are more square and precise when displaying text and other fine pitch imagery). I was wrong. It makes for a fantastic computer monitor that I can comfortably use for web browsing or gaming from about 6-8 feet. Games look wonderful, Netflix media player looks beautiful, it's all good.

Because I'm also using a Toshiba HD DVD player, they can talk to each other over HDMI (Toshiba calls it CE-Link). While this seems like a good idea, in reality, it's utterly and completely useless and is more of an annoyance than anything else. The only thing that seems to work about it is that if I turn the TV off, the next device in the HDMI network will shut off too. Absolutely nothing else happens. As a result, I've disabled it. I advise you to get a universal remote and program a few macros so that things turn on and off together.

I've mounted the TV on a Sanus VMAA18 Articulating Mount for 30"-50" Flat Panel TVs - Black which is a little overbuilt for this TV, but I wanted it to be *really* secure. Cable routing is also a little difficult since the mount structure interferes with easy access to most of the input ports. You can still get to the inputs, but small hands help quite a bit. Not a deal-breaker, and certainly not the fault of the TV, just an annoyance to be aware of.

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