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Summary: Amazing Picture Quality, great price!
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I don't know why other people had problems. I bought this television and everything looks stunning. HD is mindblowing, and I love the widescreen. My Digital Cable and Xbox are hooked up through the component inputs and everything looks spectacular. Sound is great, and I didn't even have to adjust the picture one bit. The default TV and Movie settings are just fantastic. I highly recommend this TV to anyone on a budget. And because it's CRT, you can view the TV from anywhere.
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Summary: Do I Feel Lucky??
Review: Ordering this TV from Amazon is a risky venture. The Toshiba model has a spotty reliability history. Amazon will not accept returns or assist in resolving problems. Toshiba is uncooperative in fixing any defects.
My experience: I purchased this TV from Amazon thinking I had gotten a good deal on a good TV. After turning the set on, the picture became erratic before completely failing soon after. The next day I contacted Amazon and was told there was nothing they could do and I needed to contact Toshiba.
Toshiba was slightly more helpful. They had a factory authorized service center pick up the TV. The TV has now been gone for six weeks and I still know nothing about its status. My calls to the repair shop go unanswered. My calls to Toshiba are equally unhelpful. Toshiba verifies that the repair shop is a factory authorized outlet and that they pay them for their work, yet Toshiba says they also cannot contact the shop.
No one is able to tell me when or if I can expect the return of my set. It could be days, weeks, or months, or even longer. If the set still doesn't work correctly, I get to go through this experience again. This is standard acceptable customer service for both Amazon and Toshiba.
If you are considering purchasing a TV from Amazon, you would be wise to ask yourself a very important question- "do I feel lucky?"
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Summary: DON'T BUY IT AT AMAZON.COM
Review: DON'T BUY THIS TV. ESPECIALLY FROM AMAZON.COM. THE PICTURE SUCKS. THE IMAGE IS SO SMALL ON STANDARD BROADCAST TV THAT YOU MIGHT AS WELL BUY A 13" CHEAPIE. WHEN YOU STRETCH THE FRAME EVERYONE LOOKS LIKE THE NUTTY PROFESSOR. I GOT RIPPED OFF BY AMAZON WITH A DAMAGED SET, THAT I DIDN'T NOTICE UNTIL THE GOONS HAD LEFT IN THEIR TRUCK. IF YOU DON'T KNOW ALREADY, AMAZON DOESN'T TAKE TV'S BACK, DAMAGED OR NOT. BUYER BEWARE, GO TO A STORE THAT HAS A RETURN POLICY AND PAY THE REAL PRICE.
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Summary: Great Price, Excellent TV
Review: I bought this TV because it had the biggest HDTV picture that I could fit into my wall unit for the lowest price. When I read some of the other Amazon reviews, I got worried, but fortunately there was nothing to be concerned about in my case. I am thrilled with this TV. The picture is spectacular from both my DVD player and my cable box (I get HDTV programming from Cablevision in NYC). I also hooked it up with top of the line component video cables (from Monster) which is supposed to increase picture quality, but I haven't done any comparison tests. All in all, I can highly recommend this product.
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Summary: Am I Missing the Boat?
Review: I bought this TV on September 12th, 2004 and I am not quite sure if I am a moron for not seeing the faults on this TV that others have found. I couldn't be happier with the 30HF84. I currently have HDTV through Comcast and while the channels currently are limited by quantity, the quality is exceptional! I am a HUGE sports fan and have enjoyed watching my Sox win the World Series in HD. I would agree that watching non-HD channels in "Widescreen" may be just ok, the HD is great and DVD's are even better. I find that I only end up watching the major networks and ESPN anyways on HDTV. I didn't have a progessive scan DVD player, so I ended up buying a $39 Cyberhome DVD player from Best Buy and movies look great! I have a Cambridge Soundworks System, so I do not use the speakers at all.
It was toss up between this TV and the Sony 30", but this TV was smaller and less expensive by $100. I was told that Toshiba made the better TV from stores that didn't even carry the Toshiba. My only wish was that I could have convinced my wife to get the 34" model. Oh, well! I agree with one of the prior reviews that this TV is to bridge the gap that plasmas will become more reasonably priced. After having this TV for more than a month, I have become a snob and can not stomach watching a Patriots game on any TV other than mine. Good luck!
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Summary: Not a bad TV for the price
Review: I did not purchase this TV from Amazon, I purchased it instead at my local electronics store. I was limited on options because this is the only 30" Widescreen HDTV that would fit into our entertainment center. I think the picture overall is very amazing when viewing channels in HD. I agree that the movie mode can be a little dark so I typically watch everything with the sports settings. I had to read my owners manual to learn that the reason the picture appeared to be slanted was because if the earth's magnetic pull. After using the image tilt adjustment I seem to have fixed this problem. I think the picture quality looks far superior to the other HD pictures I saw in the store when I made my purchase. Overall I think it was a good deal in the interim until prices on the plasma and LCD's comes down.
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Summary: The absolute worse Television ever!!!
Review: I just purchased this HDTV a month ago. After reading all the bad reviews I decided not to purchase it until my wife pointed out that there were also some good reviews. The next day I ordered it from Amazon .com. What I really did was throw $750.00 out the window because this TV absolutely sucks! The picture quality is so terrible. I keep getting these mosaic patterns all over the screen. I also get these dark shadows that come in and out on the characters faces. The picture is exceptionally grainy even fed through the component input. I will never purchase a TV again unless I see it first. It's really my own fault for buying a TV that don't have a return policy. I just hope that maybe someone will read this and decide not to buy this terrible TV.
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Summary: good value, great picture
Review: I ordered the TV from amazon directly and it arrived in just a few days. I actually picked it up from the shipping companies hub in Los Angeles (Eagle) - great service people! The TV was shipped from Reno, NV. It was manufacted in July 2004 in Thailand and worked right out of the box. I did have to adjust the color and contrast settings as the default sports mode it way to bright in my opinion. No trouble with any horizontal or vertical alignment at all. I purchased a dvd / vhs combo machine also from toshiba (SD-V392)and hooked it up with component cables, the picture quality is very good. On regular digital TV (Charter Comm.) hooked up via coax cable due to a old box (scientific 3100) quality is mixed. Some channels come in perfect, others are not so good. I was told by a Charter servcie rep. that all channels above 100 come in with better signal and all networks channels may be not so good on weekends as their signal come in nationally as compared to local during the week. go figure! I will try their HD service with new HD box (8000)and see if teh picture gets better. The new box can be hooked up with DVI or component Cable.
Fo regular TV I mainly use Theater Wide 1 or 3 to get a full 16:9 picture. TW 3 has a benefit of cutting of those annoying runners on the bottom of Fox and CNN and MSNBC! and I still see most of the picture on other channels like HGTV and local WB (KTLA) for news etc.
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Summary: Unfortunately, the bad reviews are true
Review: I risked buying one of these, because it was the maximum amount of TV I could fit into my 32" cabinet. But I should have listened to the warnings. When I got the TV in the cabinet and turned it on, the screen was spotted by blobs of pink, green, and blue. The picture tube was shot. I have no choice now but to wait for Toshiba to bring another and hope it works better.
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Summary: Be very careful...
Review: Well, my neightbour just bought this TV today and brought it home. I helped him setup the system and thought it was a nice little TV. So I go search for more info on this TV and run across the info here, on Amazon. First of all, I'd like to mention that I spent over an hour trying to fix the fuzzy picture that they had and it still was not fixed. Even when playing a DVD via the HD signals it was VERY grainy. The best picture I got was in movie mode, but even then I could see it. Movie mode is far too dark for standard TV viewing, and in standard mode everything is really fuzzy (you'll see this a lot when looking at monotone colors) and it looks like people have cast shadows all around them; looks like a silhouette. It's very weird looking.
Anyway, I'm not a A/V buff, but I've seen this problem with my own two eyes and I would seriously suggest that if you're interested in this TV, PLEASE buy it locally so you can return it as my neightbours are planning on doing. They know close to nothing about TV's and were dissapointed with how bad everything was showing especially compared to the [very old] 34" Sony that this TV was replacing.
Otherwise, it's a beautiful looking TV... if you're lucky enough to get a "good one" then it's probably a worthwhile buy.
Finally, if you put on a DVD in Movie mode and sit far enough away the TV looks Ok, but not great. Just be weary and buy locally, that's all. Or look for another TV. :-/
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