Toshiba 51H84 51-Inch HD-Ready Rear-Projection TV with HDMI Input
by ckseven
Great Deal Toshiba 51H84 51-Inch HD-Ready Rear-Projection TV with HDMI Input
I write reviews for various gadgets and restaurants and this is the 1st time when I do not have anything negative to write about the quality. I bought this TV back during 2004 Thanksgiving sale from BestBuy and paid about 50. It took about few weeks for the picture tube to break in and show its real colors ! Then I had a technician from best buy come over and calibrate it (as you may already know that Rear Projection TVs need calibration, but if you have the bestbuy protection plan they would do it for free at your home). Ever since then all my friends come to my place to watch the big games, movies and even to play xbox in widescreen – and everyone just drools over the picture quality. The picture is crisp, specially when watching HD content and watching movies on DVD. I do not watch analog channels since almost all of them are in HD now for a small difference of or so per month. I looked at Sony, Samsung and Toshiba – Toshiba won the race by a mile. Here are a few things worth mentioning about Toshiba 51H84: - Doesn’t have a built in HD tuner, so you cannot use its cool Split (2 screens) and Channel Scan feature (split screen in 12 screens). It has 2 inputs for Antenna, I connected one to the cable box and other bypassing the cable box, so I can screen the channels in analog (using TV’s analog tuner) and then watch it in HD.
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