Saturday 25 August 2012

Toshiba 32BV702B 32-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview (New for 2012)

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Toshiba 32BV702B 32-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview (New for 2012)

Toshiba 32BV702B 32-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview (New for 2012)

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Toshiba 32 inch FHD LCD TV 32quot Full HD LCD TV 1080p Freeview USB 2 x HDMI PC Input Black 32BV702B Televisions LCD TVs


9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic telly., 18 May 2012
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Ms. V. Ford "AniseFreya" (Hamshire, UK.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba 40BV702B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview (New for 2012) (Electronics)
Our old telly lost its HDMI input (it only had the one) and it was 6 years old and showing its age (HD ready) so looked at this and liked the price. My goodness how prices have dropped in 6 years (our LG 37" was £1100 and that was with discount).

Ordered this on the Wednesday with next day delivery and it arrived yesterday (Thursday). Took it out of the box and found it quite light. Our LG weighs a ton next to this Toshiba.

It's a 40" telly so I don't know why there are reviews here for the 32", ignore them.

Got it all set up in no time at all and as this is full HD I was expecting great things. Then I found that our TiVo box doesn't output 1080p so I was left with 720p that we used on the old set. BUT! My goodness, there was a major difference in picture quality. This knocks spots off our old LG. Colours are well defined and the image is very crisp, even in non-HD. Put the TiVo over to BBC1 HD and watched Nature Live in HD and the definition was superb, I can't fault it at all. Tried a Blu-ray disc at 1080p and it was simply stunning (we only used 720p on the old one as it didn't do 1080p only 1080i and the picture was terrible at that setting). Of course, the Toshiba being Full HD is double the resolution of the old LG and it shows.

Apple TV next (the one with the hard drive). It only does 720p maximum but the picture quality there was also stunning.

Inputs:

4 HDMI, yes, FOUR! Fantastic, enough HDMI for the TiVo, Apple TV (which I did through COMPONENT on old TV), Blu-ray player and Xbox 360.

Component.

PC.

AV (Standard res type thingy from non-HD camcorders and the like).

A couple of more that I don't use or recall.

Oh! An aerial input for the DTV (FreeView) which is also an excellent picture).

Only one headache: The old TV had separate audio in for PC and Component. This set doesn't. The audio in is shared so if you use component you lose the ability to use PC audio (and vice-verse). Still, get an HDMI lead for the Xbox instead of using PC input and it'll be fine. Thanks, Toshiba, for so many HDMI inputs.

Ah! You can plug a powered sub-woofer into it as well.

The sound takes a little getting used to over our old set (which had front facing speakers), the Toshiba uses hidden speakers so the sound comes out of the back and is reflected off the rear wall. It sounded bland but then I saw that the USER setting for audio was being used and the frequency controls were all flat. Set it to MOVIE and it made a significant difference.

So, upshot is, it's a great telly that looks nice and I can't fault it. Do bear in mind, though, that we are coming from a HD Ready set to a Full HD set so to us the difference is startling. All night I kept saying "Look at the quality of that picture!" I thought hubs was gonna throttle me at one point, hehehehehehe.


21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Nice enough telly for the price..., 24 April 2012
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Dr. G. SPORTON "groggery1" (Birmingham UK) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba 32BV702B 32-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview (New for 2012) (Electronics)
This is a perfectly nice telly. It looks fine, good size and has a couple of HDMI sockets, so useful if you have a Freeview HD, Freesat or Sky HD box. If you haven't, you might be better off looking for a telly that incorporates Freeview HD (Toshiba do a similar model to this one with this in it). Picture quality good, but sound a bit ordinary...I plugged it into my audio system and this works fine now.


21 of 25 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Sound problem, do not buy this one, 5 May 2012
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Axel VanHorn - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba 40BV702B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LCD TV with Freeview (New for 2012) (Electronics)
Ok Update

The first one i got after a month the sound gave up. Wahtever i did or called in Toshiba this could not be corrected. Amazon promptly got the thing back.

The second one I got did the same thing in about the same time, a month after. 2 Enginners and endless phonecalls would not fix that either.

Stay away, you have been warned.

Old Review for tech data

I am changing TV every now and then as I travel a lot and i rpefer not to carry the household around. This is a great tv, gives great vivid colours and grisp image right out of the box. for the money (£350) and the fact its a Full HD tv I would recomend to anyone.

Note there are many coonections, 4 HDMI, component, but most improtant for me PC input. For those intereseted, although googling for the model manual you will found it, the resolutions for PC input can be:

1 640x400 70 Hz
2 640x480 60 Hz
3 640x480 75 Hz
4 800x600 60 Hz
5 800x600 75 Hz
6 1024x768 60 Hz
7 1024x768 70 Hz
8 1024x768 75 Hz
9 1152x864 75 Hz
10 1280x768 60 Hz
11 1280x1024 60 Hz
12 1360x768 60 Hz
13 1920x1080 60 Hz

I do that here because is a real pain when you look for a PC input enabled TV and there are occasions that although you get a HD Ready tv the PC input can be max 1024x768. Luckily here this is not the fact, so if that your thing you are on the safe side.

FreeView, TV Guide, looks great.

Amazon delivery next day (Saturday) with Prime, and of course worry free as it is sold trhough Amazon.

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