Toshiba 42HL167 LCD TV

Toshiba 42HL167 LCD TV creates superb pictures with its 1080p native resolution. With its enhanced backlight technology and the capabilities to produce colour accuracy, this LCD TV creates colours which are lively and realistic. The thin, black, glossy frame that surrounds the screen and the piano black swivel base are quite impressive. The sleek, long remote is easy to operate and the various buttons provide you lot of options to tune the performance of this LCD TV.

The 42HL167 is fitted with Toshiba’s REGZA Premium LCD CineSpeed Panel. This panel offers response times that are among the best in the industry (8 ms or less), giving you plenty of power for even the most demanding home theater enthusiast. The 42HL167 also incorporates PixelPure 3rd Generation Digital Video Processing. Using 333 MHz 14-bit picture processing, PixelPure 3G can create 4096 steps of gradation for a smooth, natural-looking picture without image banding. DynaLight Dynamic Backlight Control monitors the brightness level of each video frame, and automatically adjusts the backlight intensity based on the image content. Precise signal analysis affords 256 levels of backlight intensity. This creates dynamic contrast up to 5 times that of the original panel contrast, resulting in a deeper black level that increases detail and depth, even in low light environments. And to get TV signals to this extraordinary LCD panel, there’s a built-in NTSC/ATSC/QAM digital tuner to capture over-the-air and cable standard and high definition broadcasts as well as unencrypted digital cable programming.

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the first industry-supported, uncompressed, single-cable, all-digital audio/video connection. HDMI provides the best interface between a DVD player and compatible products, such as the 42HL167. This interconnecting cable combines multichannel audio, digital video, intercommunication between devices, and simple control protocols. A one-cable connection reduces cable clutter; and assures that all signals remain in their pure digital form, and secure by use of High Definition Copy Protection (HDCP) regardless of signal output resolution.

The key to Toshiba’s fixed pixel picture quality is PixelPure 3G, the third generation of this technology combines eight different digital video processing circuits to create a consistently clearer, deeper, and more accurate picture. Another important aspect of this TV is that it’s a LCD projector, which works like a flashlight to create an image. The white light is separated into red, green, and blue beams, which are fed separately through the panels, recombined to create the full color image, then enlarged to fill the screen. Full high definition 1080p (1920 x 1080 pixel) native resolution assures finely detailed images. This LCD projector is lightweight, but still provides rich colors and sharp contrast for a huge, high-quality image. The HD Dynamic Contrast feature of the 42HL167 increases contrast and color saturation to create deep, rich images. Its intelligent circuitry analyzes both the dark and bright areas of the picture, and separately optimizes the dynamic range in each area of the picture. The six TheaterWide screen modes are ideal for HDTV signals and enhanced DVDs, allowing you to crop the screen image just the way you like it.

Quality images may be what you desire most, but the audio features on this TV aren’t anything to sneeze at either. Toshiba’s 42HL167 creates a dramatically improved home theater sound with a 20-watt total power output delivered through a new SoundStrip Speaker System, a new speaker technology using a thin-line speaker design with enhanced dynamic range. This eliminates the big round speakers, without losing any of the big home theater sound. SRS WOW technology creates a more enveloping sound with enhanced bass and better dialogue reproduction. This system is a combination of three unique sound field enhancements: SRS 3D TruSurround to create a wide, three-dimensional sound field from two TV speakers, TruBass for boosting bass for dramatic low frequency effects, and, FOCUS to raise the sound image vertically for clearer voices, even at lower volume levels. SRS WOW technology takes the performance of built-in speakers to a whole new level–without additional speakers. And for those of you who just hate it when loud commercials unexpectedly blast you out of your socks, the StableSound feature maintains the volume within a preset range, regardless of the source signal.

Like all of Toshiba’s TV models, the 42HL167 offers very user-friendly features and advanced functionality that make operation a breeze, including a 4-Item A/V remote that’s ergonomically designed and puts the most used functions right at your thumb. It comes preprogrammed to operate up to four components, including a TV, DVD player, VCR, cable box, and two other audio or video components of your home theater. The 42HL167 has many inputs and outputs so you’ll have plenty of hook-up options. The easy front A/V/S-Video inputs will let you effortlessly plug in your camcorder or video game. There are also three HDMI (1080p) inputs, rear A/V, S-Video, ColorStream HD component video inputs, plus audio outputs (including optical digital) so you can be sure to get the highest quality connection allowable for your equipment. There’s even a PC input (15 pin D-sub) so you can use the 42HL167 as a computer monitor. This TV is also stacked with convenient features like Channel Browser for easily scanning through the last 32 channels you have viewed, with screen images for the last five channels displayed, by channel, by favorites, and by input, at the touch of a button; and Favorite Browser–within Channel Browser–for previewing your preset favorite channels via thumbnails along the bottom of the screen.

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