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Summary: A couple of improvements to an already great TV.
Review: This TV is an incremental upgrade to the 26HF84 and the main improvements are that it has more video inputs, "3:2 pulldown", and "black-level expansion." If it had been up to me I'd have improved the remote, either by making it programmable or by adding support for more non-Toshiba devices, in particular the HDTV receiver that Comcast supplies. Without this ability I end up juggling remotes: one for changing channels and another for changing video inputs between TV, DVD, and video camera.
A couple of other things to note about this TV:
First, it uses a picture tube rather than an LCD or plasma display. So while the screen is flat, it's not thin. You can't tell by looking at the pictures, but this TV is 19" thick.
Second, although it's pretty thick, at 27.5" wide it's unusually narrow for a 26" HDTV. The narrowness comes from having the speakers below the picture, rather than on each side. This is very handy if you want to put the TV in a cabinet that's short on width. The Syntax Olevia TVs are handy this way as well because the side speakers are removeable.
The bottom line in terms of picture quality is that the picture is gorgeous. When displaying HDTV programs the quality is everthing you could hope for.
Before you get too excited though you should check with your local cable company, or your satellite provider, to see how many programs are actually available in HD format. This has nothing to do with the TV itself, but I've found that less than 5% of the programs I actually want to watch are available in HD. When the TV reverts to displaying standard TV broadcasts it's no longer stunning and becomes just a nice TV. HD availability will undoubtedly improve over time but you might want to check what's available to you right now.
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