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After very modest use this P>O>S lost its screen after 13 months. Toshiba remarkably extended the 12 month warranty two weeks and guaranteed all parts but no labor. This was 3 months ago...and still no television. I cannot wait to get the labor bill. I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER TOSHIBA AS LONG AS I LIVE!!!!!!!!!

After very modest use this P>O>S lost its screen after 13 months. Toshiba remarkably extended the 12 month warranty two weeks and guaranteed all parts but no labor. This was 3 months ago...and still no television. I cannot wait to get the labor bill. I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER TOSHIBA AS LONG AS I LIVE!!!!!!!!!

This is one of the worst TVs I have ever owned or seen in my entire life. My first Toshiba 26HL83P had one stuck pixel after only 20 days from purchase. I returned it back to Costco and asked for an exchange. The customer service staff at Costco claimed that a stuck pixel is considered defective. I asked for a replacment and she was glad to do it for me. My second 26HL83P, which I just got today, has two stuck pixels on the LCD screen after only less than five minutes of use. I don't know if the stuck pixels were caused in the transit of shipping, but I don't know what actually caused the stuck pixels. This is my first experience with a LCD product, and I am already having a bad experience with LCD technology, and I feel that I can't recommend LCD to anybody. Did Toshiba find any stuck pixels during the quality inspection point, because I am very disappointed to see that they passed, and the quality inspection was located in Japan. How tragic.



Walter Chan

I bought it a week ago online from Costco for $1999 plus shipping. I realize this is last year's model and that the 27HL84 is the newer one. I was attracted by what appears to be Costco's generous return policy: full refund, no time limit. If it breaks, I'll just return it to the store. We'll see how forthright they are.

The picture in HDTV and Comcast digital cable is tremendous, with HDTV having the edge by a large margin. The side stereo speakers are alkso excellent, not as good as my audio set-up but very acceptable. Remote doesn't work well with the Comcast cable box. You lose most of its functions, like stepped mute and split screen. Still there is that great picture. Toshiba phone support was responsive and knowledgable.

I highly recommend this television.

I bought this TV based almost entirely on the quality of the picture; it blew everything else away. I'm still very happy with this.
However, the software is less impressive.
The picture quality is undoubtedly a product of algorithms ensuring good contrast and range, and the picture can be further tweaked to viewer preferences. So far, so good.
It would seem to me that it would be fairly easy to write code that would determine the aspect ration of the picture being fed into the TV and adjust the picture accordingly. This could be overidden by the viewer. Similarly, it should be possible to access the inputs and determine which one had a signal. Instead, one has to mess around with the picture size and inputs which involves finding the remote control....
I don't know whether this is a problem with all modern TVs or not, or perhaps most users are not so fussy about bits of the picture disappearing off the edges. With this model, this aspect of its design could definitely be improved.
While I don't use the internal speakers, I have tried them out; the quality of sound is really very good for a TV.