Toshiba 40TL963B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview

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Toshiba 40TL963B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview

Feature

• 1920 x 1080 Pixel Resolution
• USB Record/Play Back
• 40" LED 3D TV Screen
• SmartTV Features

Product Overview

40" Full 1080p HD LED 3DTV with SmartTV Features, Freeview HD Tuner, USB Record/Play Back, AMR200 - 200 frame per second refresh rate & 4 x HDMI Sockets.

4.0 out of 5 stars Quality tv but not without some minor flaws, 8 Feb 2013

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Gok40 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 46TL963B 46-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview (Electronics)

I purchased this tv from Amazon due to them offering it at the lowest available price both online and in stores. Delivery to N.Ireland (which usually takes day or two longer) took 3 days only, delivered wednesday from a sunday night online order, 1 day ahead of projected delivery date.

As for the product itself, as an owner of large TV's for 10-15 years, including old rear projection tellies and my most recent Panasonic plasma I am well versed on the technological shortcomings of the various types of technology. Prior to purchase I read countless reviews of this tv in comparison to others and accepted that with all varieties of manufacturer you will have small issues you might just have to accept at the price range of £450-£600.

As I haven't used it in the first few days of owning it for online content, the SMART functions etc I can only comment on the picture & sound performance. The tv arrives with a number of pre-set modes as usual but I have found them all in need of adjustment via the picture menus. For example the Dynamic setting is striking and vibrant on sport, animated movies such as Toy Story etc but on regular movies / tv, the level of noise that shows up is terrible, so you find yourself having to tone it down if watching these programmes. The Hollywood settings for movie watching I found very very soft contrast, and if I wanted such a soft picture i'd have purchased a Plasma instead and not LED/LCD tv. With enough tinkering of the motion setting, noise reduction, contrast, brightness and colour you can get this TV showing beautiful pictures (especially on HD) and not bad images on standard definition pictures depending on the Sky channel and their encoding quality. MTV etc still remain particularly pixilated and 'rough' regardless of the settings but thats as a result of them not being HD and poor digital compression encoding also.

Now the bad points. As a newcomer to LED techology, I have read repeated reviews about backlighting bleeding when picture is dark and was wary about purchasing tv as a result. This TV does suffer from it, and from what I gather the tv's LED is 'edge lit' hence it shows up at the extreme edges of the screen. You can reduce the effect of this by reducing the backlight setting down to around 50% or lower, without it significantly reducing the vibrancy of the picture overall. Do this and also reduce contrast and brightness suitably and you can get good levels of black, strong contrast and superb colour rendition without very much blacklight bleed. There always remains some brighter light at the extreme sides of the screen, encroaching around 2-3 inches inwards and some might find this offputting as when u know its there, you may not be able to help yourself look for it. But concentrate on the centre of the picture as normal viewing would and its a fault of the technology that I find i can live with. (and I'm fussy about my picture quality!).

Finally the sound on this tv is very weak and tinny due to its fantastic slim frame. You might want to invest in a separate sound bar to get the best from such a large dynamic picture.

As for the 3D function, I tried briefly watching film on it but found it poor with lots of flickering in the background etc. This might have been fault of my universal 3D glasses I purchased, not the official Toshiba ones, so wont claim that it doesnt work well. Might just be that I dont particularly find 3D inspiring, easy to watch or useful in any way and more a gimmick until the quality issues can be ironed out.

One final point : the casing on the back of the tv was cracked, length of which was about 3 inches, with a score along side it of same length. Fortunately this doesnt seem to have affected the tv in anyway, and Im guessing came about due to the solid stand 'cup' that attaches to tv and stand being stuffed into the very slim packaing thereby cracking the plastic rear of tv. This was then moved to the FRONT of the box against the tv screen and fortunately the foam covering prevented any scoring on the screen itself, but poor packaing I'm afraid from Toshiba, and not im sure anything Amazon can be faulted for.

All in all, with a little tinkering this TV can produce excellent pictures for a decent price, and I'm sure somene else can vouch for the interactive / SMART functionality of the tv for those keen to use them.

Highly recommended and purchase from Amazon with confidence....

4.0 out of 5 stars good tv, 7 Feb 2013

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christopher feeley (england) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 40TL963B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview (Electronics)

brilliant 3d tv but it keep turn off and change to normal tv so i have turn it back dtv

5.0 out of 5 stars toshiba 40 inch smart tv, 28 Jan 2013

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derek coakley - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 40TL963B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview (Electronics)

what a bargain this was i looked everywhere and this was by far the cheapest it does everything a far more expensive tv does

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a rather good TV, 26 Jan 2013

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K. Karimi "Kasra" (UK) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba 40TL963B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview (Electronics)

Bought it last week and have bee playing with it to discover more about it.

Good Points:
Image quality is very good.
Unlike some comments saying the sound isn't that good, I found it quite well.
Media Streaming from laptop to TV (DLNA) wirelessly is really fun.
The Internet via dongle is pretty good (quite limited possibilities though)
Beautiful slim design.
Easy to setup.

Bad Points:
It's a bit slow to boot and to change mood. The TV guide is a bit slow too.
I think the remote isn't sensible enough either. The remote app on iPhone is pretty good.
The 3D isn't a miracle, So nothing impressive with the 3D technology.
You need to pay another £30 for the dongle and £50 for the 3D glasses.

In overall as a fussy person who's quite into technology, I'm happy with my purchase, considering that it's a good price, However it still has a long way to go to be a full SMART TV.

5.0 out of 5 stars really good, 16 Jan 2013

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S. A. Res "Ladybird" (WALEs) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba 40TL963B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview (Electronics)

great picture, sharp crystal clear, easy to operate... still few things need to figure out but as long as i can change channels thats fine!!.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Happy Customer., 14 Jan 2013

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Michael By The Sea. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 46TL963B 46-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview (Electronics)

This product is extremely good , it has a good sharpe picture , with good sound quality , and easy to use remote control etc . And on top of that , it was also an extremely good price . I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending this wonderful Toshiba T.V.

5.0 out of 5 stars It covers everything we want in a TV. both fornow and the future, 12 Jan 2013

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Ozza - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 40TL963B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview (Electronics)

I would recommend it to anyone.
The drawbacks are the fiddly change from Antenna input to Satellite ditto, and the need to download the User Guide.
That's all so far.

5.0 out of 5 stars This TV should be rated a 'best buy', 12 Jan 2013

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Bernard Stanley - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 40TL963B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview (Electronics)

Good picture quality, any problems are down to the weak signal in our valley. Good facilities built in, easy to use. The narrow frame around the screen means we could probably have bought a slightly larger set without it dominating the room I would recommend potential buyers to consider that. We have looked at flat screen TV's for over six months and this is the first one that we immediately considered good value for money, with all the facilities we are likely to need for some time to come. The smart facility has already got me out of trouble with iplayer and only required a mains linked ethernet cable to enable it in our very old house with very thick walls. Haven't had the chance to try out the 3D facility because we shall have to save up for the active 3D glasses at around £50 each but at that price I understand why Toshiba didn't want to price themselves out of the market by supplying them. We already have DVD players and recorders by Toshiba and their after sales technical service is second only to Hewlett Packard (most of our computer equipment is HP). Overall a very good buy, we are delighted with it.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Price for HD 3D, 6 Jan 2013

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Mr. R. Hadfield "Bones Fan 1982" (Wirral, UK) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Toshiba 40TL963B 40-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview (Electronics)

Paid £444 gross for this 40inch HD LED 3D TV with Smart features.
I cannot bore with technical data as I am not that up to speed with allot of modern technology but the TV is lovely, a perfect size and ideal for my basic needs, the 3D features have been tested on Blu-ray 3D and are outstanding. The only thing I have found is it can be a bit slow when channel surfing...

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Toshiba 46TL963B, 31 Dec 2012

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Timothy King - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 46TL963B 46-inch Widescreen Full HD 1080p LED 3D Smart TV with Freeview (Electronics)

Dear Sir/Madam,
Unfortunately, I had to return the Toshiba 46TL963B as I noticed that the left side of the screen was concave/warped.
I put a 1M ruler against the far left front edge of the TV screen and there was a definite gap of about 1cm between the TV screen and the ruler whereas the right side was straight.
Yours sincerely,
Timothy King.

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