Toshiba 26LV610U 26-Inch 720p LCD TV with Built in DVD Player, Black

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1. Huela
   Posted October 2, 2009 at 7:58 pm | Permalink

   Like all Toshiba TV’s, the picture quality is top-notch. I compared this TV to a Samsung of similar size. Toshiba’s color was a tad better than Samsung, but the Samsung was excellent also. Built in DVD player is a plus when space is limited for a separate player. We use this TV in our bedroom and the 26″ size is perfect, almost bought Toshiba’s similiar TV in 22″ size, glad I picked went for the 26″, bigger is always better…

   Two gripes, you cannot tilt the TV downward. We have ours on a 5 drawer dresser and we have to look up to watch the TV when laying down in bed. If you do not tilt the TV downward the picture quality goes away, and I mean away, so dark you can’t even watch it. I made a wedge out of some molding I had laying around to raise the rear of the TV so it tilts down. No having the screen tilt is a big mistake by Toshiba, the smaller screens sizes of this similar TV DO tilt, I cannot see why Toshiba did not use the same tilt feature in the 26″ model. Very bad design for Toshiba on this one. The other gripe is the sound amplifier could be a tad stronger if the TV is used in a room other than a bedroom. The best bet would be a set of amplified speakers if the TV is used in a noisey enviroment. Yes I know you shouldn’t have to go out and buy external speakers, but this is a common problem with ALL flat screen LCD TV’s, there is not enough room for quality speakers in the thin case design.

   Overall this a great TV for picture quality and the built in DVD player is a plus.

   To solve the tilting problem, I would suggest mounting the TV on a wall with a wall mount that will enable you to tilt the TV to any desired position. I am thinking of doing that myself.

   I would highly recommend this TV/DVD combo.

   Additional comment: Wall mounting was simple and easy, but you do need 2 people of course to do this safely. Find at least one stud in your wall, the spacing of the mount does not allow you to screw the mount into two studs of course. Use winged Toggle Bolts for the side without the stud if mounting on sheet rock with a hollow wall behind the sheet rock. If stud mounting is not acceptable, the use of the winged Toggle Bolts can be used to attach the mount to the wall. Make sure your mount has full tilt capabilites of many degrees.

2. Yauvani
   Posted October 2, 2009 at 9:08 pm | Permalink

   I purchased this TV to replace a much smaller TV for the bedroom.

   The picture quality and sound are about what I was expecting.
   I am hard of hearing and have no problem in hearing the sound.
   It is easy to plug in extra speakers to boost the sound and that
   is what I have also done. I am getting sound from internal and ext.
   speakers now. I don’t expect theater sound, but with the extra spkrs.
   (fairly cheap Altec Lansing), the sound is def. more than I need now.
   The picture quality is better than most TV’s of this type, but as
   many have noted, it is far better when you are directly in front of
   the TV and esp. not at an angle below the TV. I have manually tilted
   the TV downward and the picture is much better now while lying in bed.

   So…. even tho the sound was already good or better than most as is,
   the sound is much more improved with the cheapie external speaker and
   the picture quality problem has been solved. I do wish that Toshiba
   had made the stand so it could be tilted w/o having to resort to manually
   tilting it.

   The built in DVD player seems to work OK. I have not used it much but
   seems to function appropriately. Just played regular DVD’s with it.
   I did try to play some jpgs and it is one of the worst at doing that
   I have used…. (comparing it to other DVD players much older). I
   would have expected it to be superior in this area, but it is very
   slow advancing from picture to picture. Nothing about this feature
   (displaying jpg’s) seems to be intuitive. Would be nice if there
   would be a firmware update and fix this, but I doubt there will
   be.

   My worst grip is the remote. The features are labeled with lettering
   that makes it very hard to find two of the most used features that I
   use…. “picture size” (depending on air TV or DVD) and also the
   “source” button. I use these often and am slowly learning where to
   find them, but it is aggravating to have to spend time looking for them.
   I am considering getting a marker or something to physically label
   these two buttons.

   All in all, it is a good TV and I believe I would buy it again even
   tho I usually prefer the Sony brand which we have in the den.

3. Cairo
   Posted October 2, 2009 at 10:57 pm | Permalink

   Review of Toshiba 26LV610U HDTV/CD PLAYER COMBO.

   This purchase replaced a Toshiba 3 way combination TV/VCR/CD analog unit which had given excellent service for at least a decade.

   The new combo unit described above is excellent in every respect except sound. The volume control operates an 0-50 on screen scale. Set at 50-maximum possible volume, sitting no more than 8 feet away, the sound is too low for quiet conversation to be heard clearly. The problem is worse on some DVD discs.

   It should not be necessary to buy aftermarket amplifiers/speakers. This report should be submitted to Toshiba—there may be a way to program the sound to fix this problem with the existing rear-pointing speakers.

   Respectfully submitted,

   Mike Jackson