Toshiba 40RF350U LCD TV Review

When it comes to flat panel HDTV, less is always more. Toshiba’s 40RF35OU features a super narrow bezel design providing less than one inch of frame around a 40″ LCD HDTV screen. Less frame is one thing, but the real smile-maker here is more screen. The super narrow bezel around the 40RF35OU’s screen means that this 40 inch LCD fits in roughly in the same space as a standard-frame 437 inch LCD. This means no feeling vexed by wanting a larger screen but not having the space in your current home theater display.

Bringing you the absolute best in connectivity and connectability, Toshiba’s 40RF35OU features 3 HDMI connections with CE-Link. HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the only interface in consumer electronics that can carry both uncompressed high-definition (HD) video and uncompressed multi-channel audio in all HD formats including 720p, 1080i and even 1080p.

HDMI systems automatically configure to display that content in the most effective format, even if your incoming media content comes in a variety of sizes, resolutions and formats, and with that in mind.

Since HDMI carries all channels on video and audio, there is only one cable to plug into any HDMI-enabled source and display device. No more complicated cable set-up when installing your home theater system, and no more ugly cable mess behind your components. HDMI supports standard, enhanced, or high-definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on this single cable. Also, HDMI is fully backward-compatible with DVI.

Featured in the 40RF35OU is Toshibass new xvYCC 10-bit LCD panel, which does you the small favor of providing 64 times more colors than a standard 8-bit panel, thus offering smoother transitions between color changes and during subtle shade transitions.

In addition, the 40RF35OU’s ColorBurst Wide Color Gamut CCFL dramatically increases the amount of colors available, improves the accuracy of color, and enhances color saturation.

The three separate sound expanding systems integrated in the 40RF35OU’s SRSR WOWR technology brandish their arms to provide you with the ultimate in sound without requiring additional speakers.

The three systems are the SRSR 3D, TruBassR, and FOCUSR. SRS 3D creates a three dimensional sound field from just two speakers, thus giving you the feeling of hearing a multi speaker surround sound system.

TruBass produces a powerful, yet low, frequency sound by utilizing a process called psychoacoustics. From only two small speakers, TruBass will give the effect of an expensive sub woofer that will leave you amazed by the quality of the sound.

FOCUS was added to direct the energy from the speakers of the television set in a vertical direction up towards your ears. The addition of FOCUS means that there is virtually no loss of sound from the speaker’s position on the bottom panel near the floor, which achieves a clear, undistorted range of audio.

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