Product Description

Reliability. Performance. Technology. Leadership. The Toshiba name means all this and more. Toshiba builds upon this heritage by delivering the industry's most innovative, high-quality solutions. PRODUCT FEATURES: 94cm screen; Freeview digital terrestrial

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92945 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Toshiba
• Model: 37WLT66
• Released on: 2006-03-07
• Dimensions: 45.59 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

Toshiba’s new REGZA range is an impressive collection of LCD televisions bringing a new level of reality to your viewing experience. Featuring Toshiba’s stunning new LCD styling, each set is packed with image enhancing technology to make the pictures clearer, sharper and more realistic than ever before. Building upon the success of the acclaimed and award winning WL56 & WLT58 series now sees the emergence of the WLT66 series. This 37WLT66 continues to excude Toshiba's unique Picture Frame Design and encorporates a 1366 x 768 panel resoultion, integrated digital tuner for access to over 30 Freeview TV channels. Market leading 2 x HDMI interfaces are included for ultimate digital connection to your HD satellite receiver and HDMI DVD recorder. 2 x SCARTs and component video input are also incuded for further ease of use connectivity. 3D colour management system allows for the optimum in colour change by allowing the Hue, saturation and brightness of each colour can be changed independently. Toshiba's Active Vision LCD picture processing dramtically improves the picture performance by cleverly reducing jaggered edges, enhancing the contrast automatically, improving the detail and optimising 1024 colour tones of the TV.

High Definition television is a broadcast and pre-recorded video format that delivers picture quality vastly superior to standard definition television and even DVD. The standard TV broadcast system in the UK (PAL) creates a picture with 576 lines made up of two half-resolution frames interlaced together. HDTV offers up to 8 times more detail and clarity thanks to using one of two formats: 720p: 720 lines progressively scanned 1080i: 1080 lines interlaced together Toshiba’s REGZA 1080HD televisions are compatible with both HDTV standards and automatically detect and decode the correct format for hassle-free HD viewing. In addition, active internal scaling ensures standard TV broadcasts are up-scaled to 1080 lines to fill the screen with enhanced standard definition images. Many LCD TVs are HD-Ready, this means they have a screen resolution of either 1280 x 720 or 1366 x 768 pixels. These TVs will reproduce over 1 million pixels, and deliver a stunning HD image with most screen sizes, Toshiba REGZA 1080HD televisions maximize large screen High Definition reproduction by using over 2 million pixels. This is thanks to the 1920 x 1080 screen resolution.

High-definition Multimedia Interface is the new industry standard for connecting AV components.HDMI allows the transmission of uncompressed digital video and audio content over a single cable.As there is no conversion of the signal from digital to analogue and back again ( as with a SCART lead for example) , the orgional quality is retained. The WLT66 range boasts a market-leading 2 HDMI connections. Connecting via HDMI replaces the multiple cables required with analogue AV connections and dramatically simplifies home cinema instalation.HDMI offers numerous additional benefits including PC compatibility, automatic format adjustment, as well as automatic configuration of the system to turn on or off the components necessary to view a DVD, listen to a CD or watch cable or satellite TV.

It is essential that display technology keeps pace with the dramatic increase in picture quality offered by HD broadcasts. Active Vision LCD is a high performance picture processing system designed to produce a stunning image by enhancing four core elements of a television picture: Detail: Active Vision LCD reproduces three times more pixels than a conventional LCD TV. Colour: It produces four times more colour tones than a conventional LCD TV. Movement: Real Speed Progressive technology reduces jagged edges on lines and detail during fast-moving scenes. Contrast: Dynamic contrast enhancer adjusts contrast levels automatically. Real Digital adds another dimension to picture processing technology by reducing the number of separate signal conversions that normally occur in an LCD TV. A reduction in conversions before the signal reaches the panel processing chip guarantees more of the original picture information is retained.

The 37WL66 features enhanced SRS WOW technology which creates a wider audio ‘sweet spot’ from the built-in stereo speakers, for a fuller, richer and deeper sound than from a conventional system. The 37WL66 also boasts 'Stable Sound', a clever feature which keeps the audio levels within a certain dB range preventing unexplained increases in sound levels which often occur during the commercial breaks. Digital TV broadcasting has allowed adverts to use louder-than average sound or music to attract viewers attention. This can be highly annoying, particularly late at night, and most HDTVs simply ignore the problem. The 42WLT66 and 47WLT66 offer Toshiba’s Stable Sound feature that dynamically adjusts volume to keep TV programmes and adverts a near constant sound level.

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Customer Reviews

Toshiba 37Wlt66
The performance of this Tv is great, HD signals such as movies and xbox 360 look amazing and with an up scaling dvd player through the HDMI you can get vastly improved dvd playback. Unfortuantely there are two problems. Firstly it seems that this model has a common fault through rgb where you see faint vertical scrolling lines. Secondly, and this is a common fault with all LCDs is that it suffers from uneven backlighting, again this is apparent in all LCD televisons but the Toshiba does not solve the problem.

Overall its a great tv but suffers from rgb problems although this can be avoided by using dvd (preferably upscaling) through the hdmi socket which you will want to do as it gives far superior picture quality and like all lcds can have uneven backlighting, this is something you will have to accept and learn to live with as from my years of experience there is no such thing as a perfect televison

Positive- Great picture quality and performance, excellent connectivity, perfect geometry and a good price

Negative- RGB fault and does not promise perfect backlight balance

Go on, buy it!
I have read reviews on this product prior to buying it, and it seemed that for the money, you can't really do much better. The one thing that put me off a little was the reviews about the sound quality. And i think that my fears have been well and truly laid to rest....the sound quality is superb, i watched a film the day after purchase, and it was like being in the cinema (although the film was mediocre!) and booming across the room at me!

The picture setup is simple, and after pressing a few buttons, i had crystal clear beautiful picture, allowing me to see every blemish on the newsreader's faces.

All in all, this is the best TV purchase around, and for only £800 it really can't be beat! The biggest downside is the box, it's bloody huge, if you buy it in shops, you will probably need to unpack it in the car park, else it won't be going in your car!

If you're after a good size (it looks small in Comet, but trust me, you don't really need a bigger one, unless you're at that mid-life stage, or under-endowed!) HD ready TV, with connectors up the ying-yang, a great picture, beautiful sounds, and is great for playing the classics like Grand Theft Auto.....Then for the love of all that is holy, get this TV. It's great!

The Badger!!

Pretty good, but...
I'm enjoying this television except for one thing. The sound is too deep for it to have any life in it. It's just too heavy and makes me want to up the treble and reduce the bass,but adjustments make little difference.
The spoken word sounds like it has had all the life removed from it.
The little portable TV in the kitchen does a better job.
The Toshiba definately needs to be put through an audio system to get the best out of it