Toshiba 32XV555 TV reviews

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Score 8.9/10 Read 194
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+ This TV scores high on ease of use. - It has no outstanding negative points.

£514 at 1 retailer out of 399 retailers checked

Toshiba 32XV555 with 32" Full HD 1080p LCD screen, 3 HDMI ports and Freeview. See full product description

Image quality	8.9
Sound quality	8.3
Design	9.0
Value for money	9.2
Overall rating	8.9

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alan, kendal Multi-purpose viewer

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: perfect
Bad points:: none

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	10.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 29 Jun 2009

Martin, Shefford Multi-purpose viewer

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Styish great looking
Bad points:: None

Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 21 Apr 2009

tom, cardiff

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: fantastic build quility, great image good sound. plenty of ports
Bad points:: nothing

Ease of use	10.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	9.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 14 Sep 2009

Confirmed purchaser Film and documentary lover

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: best value product
Good picture
good specs and options
build quality is excellent and remote is cool
Bad points:: picture is occasionally and rarely blocky a bit.

Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 06 May 2009

MICHAEL, BIRMINGHAM Multi-purpose viewer

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: QUALITY PICTURE AND LOTS OF EXTRA CONNECTION PIONTS AND A PROPER ON/OFF SWITCH
Bad points:: SOUND IS AVERAGE

Image quality	9.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 03 May 2009

Craig, Chelmsford Multi-purpose viewer

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: For a budget television the picture is pretty good after a great deal of experimentation with the factory settings which are a bit of a nightmare,but if you are persistant they can be rectified.It has many decent features including full HD which may be satisfying to the technical minded viewer.
Bad points:: The sound at times is randomly appalling and makes no sense(like going incredibly quiet in the middle of a persons sentence) which is really very tedious to listen to.LCD tv's are quite renowned generally for their terrible audio which is more pronounced on budget models,but if you are hard of hearing or have a large space in which the tv is going to go,then invest in a surround sound system if you insist on having this television.Its a shame because everything else is quite acceptable.

Image quality	8.0
Sound quality	4.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Confirmed purchase: 02 May 2009

Kurtman,

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: Great sound and picture
Bad points:: none

Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	10.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 01 May 2009

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Product Features

Screen size (Inches)	32
Screen size is measured diagonally from corner to corner.
Type of screen	LCD
Most small flatscreen TVs have LCD screens. Some larger TVs have plasma screens. Some very new TVs have LED screens. Traditional TVs are called Standard or CRT.
3D	No

HD TV	Full HD 1080p
‘HD Ready’ is a Europe-wide standard designed to made HD technology less confusing. HD Ready TVs must have • Minimum resolution of 720 horizontal lines (in widescreen format) • Ability to display 720p and 1080i formats • An HDMI or Digital Video Interface (DVI interface) Full HD is a higher standard. Full HD TVs have screen resolutions of 1080p and can output at least 24 frames per second. Full HD is becoming common, but you won’t see Full HD on normal TV channels for a long time, so it remains optional for many people.
Built-in disc player	No Disc Player
Some products come with built-in DVD players or Blu Ray players.
Freeview or Freesat tuner	Freeview
Freeview is free digital terrestrial TV. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service, which gives you HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You need a dish to receive Freesat but not Freeview. For more information see the Freeview site or the Freesat site. FreeSat is a free digital satellite TV service. The main benefit is that you can get HD programming from people like the BBC without having to pay for a subscription to a service like Sky. You’ll need a dish to recieve the signals though.
Number of HDMI ports	3
Like a scart interface but capable of carrying HD signals from or to other devices. You’ll need these to link your Playstation 3 or your Blu-ray player to your HD-ready TV.
Number of scart ports	2
Scart sockets are places where you can connect other devices to your TV. If you already have a DVD player, a VCR and a Playstation you might want to make sure your new TV has enough Scart interfaces so you don’t have to keep crawling round the back of the TV.
Connections	HDMI

Smart TV	No
TVs with internet capability allow you access to a range of online services.
Frequency (Hz)	50
A TV’s frequency is how often the picture is updated per second, and is measured in Hertz (Hz). A higher frequency, such as 100 Hz, means that a TV is more likely to show fast-moving images with high detail.
Response time (Milliseconds)	8

Screen aspect ratio	16:9
This is a ratio of the horizontal to the vertical size of the screen. 16:9 is standard widescreen format for TVs, replacing the older 4:3 format.
Contrast Ratio (X:1)	30000
This figure is designed to tell you how much difference there is between dark and light colours on the TV. It is quoted as a ratio, between the brightest white and the darkest black. 500:1 means the brightest white is 500 times more bright than the darkest black. Plasma screens have historically boasted better contrast ratios than LCD screens.
Reflection angle	178
Also known as the viewing angle, it’s a measure of how good the picture looks when you are not face on to the screen. Higher is better.
Horizontal resolution (Pixels)	1920

Vertical resolution (Pixels)	1080

Brightness (Candela per square metre)	480
Brighter TVs, such as LCDs, tend to provide a better experience in lighter rooms, whereas TVs with a lower brightness, such as many plasma TVs, are often better suited to darker rooms.
Electronic Program Guide (EPG)	Yes
TVs with this feature have an on-screen guide to all the programmes that are currently showing or coming up, so you can find your way around all the extra digital channels easily.
Headphone Socket	Yes
Weight (kg)	12.4

Release date	2008-04-16
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: TOSHIBA 32XV555DB, Toshiba 32XV555D

TV Buyers Guide

Manufacturer's Description

If you’re dabbling in high definition content, you’re on the cutting edge. The REGZA 32” XV series is a Full HD 1080p Ready LCD television, blending superb picture and audio quality and delivering it in a slim and stylish package. Enjoy every drop of detail on the XV series.

24fps Compatible
Enables the display of a 24 frames per second input at the native frame rate of the TV (50/100 Hz).

Active Vision LCD
Toshiba’s high performance and flexible picture processing system offering different picture modes.

Dynamic Contrast
Automatically adjusts brightness required by the signal. This system allows fine detail to be reproduced, without compromising the rendering of colourful, high-bright scenes, by dimming the backlight. Conversely, for bright scenes the backlight can be brightened to give images a new intensity.

Game Mode
A dedicated setting for Gaming enthusiasts. Select “Game Mode” when connecting your HDMI games console, the picture will automatically adjust to offer a more natural gaming picture. Offering the online gamer a distinct advantage over your rivals who don’t have a dedicated Game Mode.

Luma Sens
Auto Contrast feature – working closely with the Dynamic Contrast backlight, but takes things a stage further by measuring the ambient light in the room, automatically adjust the picture accordingly depending on if you are watching your REGZA LCD in a dark or light environment. Offering a better picture quality it, makes the TV run more efficiently and consume less energy.

3 x HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface is an all-digital audio/video interface capable of transmitting uncompressed streams. HDMI provides an interface between any compatible digital audio/video source and video monitor.

Digital Approved Product
Allows a TV to receive free-to-view digital broadcasts through its standard aerial with no need for an additional digital decoder box.

Full Power Down
Your Toshiba LCD TV can now be fully turned off when you do not want to leave it on stand by mode.

HD Ready 1080p
The highest definition signal currently available carries which 1080 horizontal lines of information progressivvely scanned to create a high definition image (1920 × 1080).