Product Description

As your source for digital home entertainment, Toshiba offers one of the most extensive television lineups in the industry. Whether you're looking for the latest in HDTV, the flattest FST Pure flat-screen TVs, or the highest quality in portable television

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22299 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Toshiba
• Model: 32WLT66
• Released on: 2006-03-07
• Number of items: 1
• 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 32WLT66 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 32WL66 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 32WL66 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

Frustrating Remote control
I would recommend setting up the tv as a previous reviewer recommended below, ie turn of all the image boosting settings, which makes all this silly technology you are paying for to make the image supposedly better now useless.

I have had the tv since december 2006, since day one I found the remote to be very frustrating, the worst thing is selecting between inputs, you have to press hard and sometimes it works and sometimes not, there is no pattern to it, and it is very slow at changing input.

Also if you press play on you video player on the inputs don't switch automatically which is anoying as you have to do it manually and I have described what a frustrating job it is to change them.

So the tv might work but if the thing you use the most ie the remote, causes you stress and anxiety then it is not a great product in my view.

Toshiba 32WLT66
I bought this the same time as one of my friends bought a Sony Bravia. He got his first, and I wasn't impressed with the picture at all. Very grainy.

So I was a bit nervous when it arrived, but I needn't have been. The quality of the picture is pin sharp and I have to say completely outclasses the Bravia. The WLT66 has been replaced by the WLT68, but all they have upgraded is the sound and added another HDMI lead. I would say this is excellent value for money and exactly what the experts have said - one of the best LCD TVs you can buy. The chap in Comet reckoned nothing could touch them.

My advice is get a WLT66 why you still can, and save yourself £[...] over the WLT68.

Really impressed with this TV
I purchased the Toshiba LCD tv about a month ago now after reading various reviews on the internet and so far I have been really pleased with it.

PRO's

The picture quality is excellent considering the price of the set (I paid £599 from Amazon). Its important to switch the 3D colour management setting on though as this sharpens everything up. The picture quality through the inbuilt digital tuner is great, its a better picture than the telewest cable picture that I also have hooked up.

People have commented on the sound being not so good. I disagree, I think it is excellent on my set. It can however sound overly bassy sometimes but I think its just down to the settings.

What is also great about this TV is the connectivity. It has 2 scart sockets, a component input (red, yellow and white cables), 2 HDMI inputs and PC input. I have cable TV, a DVD player, a playstation 2 and my PC hooked up to the TV and its easy to switch between the inputs. Using the TV as a PC monitor takes a bit of playing round with the resolution for the clearest picture which fits the screen best but once done its great and you can surf the net from your sofa.

CON's

Very few and they are only minor. The digital tv can be slow to scroll through the tv guide but its fine if you use the red and green buttons to change pages. It hasn't bothered me.

If you reduce the backlight settings quite low you get a quiet humming noise from the back of the tv which is audable when the volume is low, the solution is to keep the backlight on the default setting.


Overall I would thoroughly recommend this tv.