Toshiba 42ZV635 TV reviews

Score 9.4/10 Read 9
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This TV is a good all rounder.

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Toshiba 42ZV635 with 42" Full HD 1080p LCD screen, 4 HDMI ports and Freeview. See full product description

Ease of use	9.3
Image quality	9.4
Sound quality	9.1
Design	9.6
Value for money	9.4
Overall rating	9.4

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Confirmed purchaser Sports and games fan

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Really pleased with this purchase. Excellent picture, especially good for sports and wildlife documentaries. Love the larger screen.
Bad points:: Only had this tv for a few weeks and haven't found anything yet that is bad.

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

Was this review helpful? 3 of 4 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 31 Dec 2009

Confirmed purchaser Multi-purpose viewer

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: Picture quality, 3 HDMI ports, design, ease of set up, easy to use - pretty much everything really...
Bad points:: Only one slightly picky fault and thats that it takes quite a while to switch on (about 7 seconds), its just long enough to mention it as a 'bad point'.

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

Was this review helpful? 2 of 5 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 23 Nov 2009

Jonathon , Abergavenny

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: stunning picture quality from standard definition digital TV and from DVD when using the upscaling dvd player also from Toshiba. Great sound quality much better than I expected.
Digital photos dispalyed via the USB look like studio quality.
Bad points:: Not sure about the white shaded border on the TV frame, although it does soften the edges and helps it blend into its background. To be honest I see nothing bad in this TV, I love it, worth the 3 month wait whilst on back order.

Ease of use	7.0
Image quality	10.0
Sound quality	10.0
Design	8.0
Value for money	8.0
Overall rating	9.0

Was this review helpful? 14 of 17 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 19 Aug 2009

Confirmed purchaser Sports and games fan

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: A brilliant TV!! Simple to set up with excellent picture and sound quality. Fantastic value for money. Would highly recommend it to anyone wanting an outstanding TV for under £600!
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: 08 Jul 2010

Rik, Edinburgh Sports and games fan

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: The quality of the standard definition up-scaling is excellent. Also, the picture quality when watching sport is exceptional - there's no blurring whatsoever.
Bad points:: Reviewer left no comment

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

Was this review helpful? 2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Confirmed purchase: 08 Feb 2010

Weixu, London Sports and games fan

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Awesome. The Image quality is not quite as I expected. bought a Samsung Led TV to my parents and that Image quality was goooodd!! So good that my Toshiba looks mediocre. Otherwise is a really good package. Has everything you need wit h4 HDMI to connect your PS3 Xbox and PC etc. Super easy to use.
Bad points:: The Image quality is not as good as I expected.

Ease of use	9.0
Image quality	7.0
Sound quality	8.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 07 Jul 2010

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Product Features

Screen size (Inches)	42
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	4
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)	200
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)	100000
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)	500
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)	23

Release date	2009-05-13
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Also known as: Toshiba 42ZV635DB, Toshiba 42ZV635D, Toshiba Regza

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Manufacturer's Description

The REGZA 42ZV635 comes in 107cm (42") combining HD Ready 1080p picture processing with our stunning Deep Lagoon design. TheÂ 42" ZV contains our newly developed Active Vision M200HD picture processing technology to produce Toshibaâ€™s smoothest fast moving images to date. The REGZA 42ZV635 features Resolution+ technology which enhances edge detail and texture to upscale high definition content to near high definition quality providing clearer, sharper, richer images. As no environment is ever the same, AutoView function is able to adapt to its surroundings. Integrated Dolby Volume stops those annoying changes in volume levels as you switch between channels or your home entertainment systems, to provide a consistent volume level at all times.

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