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I recently bought this TV for my bedroom and I am as pleased as I am with my big Toshiba. It is true, and I will soon hook a surround speaker to the tv, that the sound lacks a little. But as mentioned it can be fixed relatively simple and cost efficient.
Overall it is a great TV for a bedroom.

I ordered this tv and it showed up with a dead pixel so I returned. Not sure if I'm going to get the same one or the Sharp. The picture when viewed at night seemed to have a white glow coming from the top and bottome edges of the screen, mostily noticable on darker pictures. Not sure if that is the way it's supposed to be or if there was more than a dead pixel wrong with the tv. I was worried about the sound level but that didn't seem to be a problem.

due to a space concern in the bedroom we bypassed a regza and went with this 22" tv. The first one we got was incredibly defective. It turned itself on in the middle of hte night multiple times with no provocation. Then when watching broadcast channels in digital, the sound was wont to cut out for minutes at a time. Then one of our local channels, channel 3, was changed in the toshiba memory ( by itself ) to channel 50, and now when we try to navigate from channel 3 to the next channel, it jumps to channel 57! so the channels were all mixed up. my father went back to the store and they told him that hte tv's in the store all do that !

but we tried another unit of this same tv, hoping that this one was just unusually defective. no such luck. this one also has major problems with the sound where it cuts out for minutes at a time. imagine if it were after february 2009, and you could not switch back to the analog! you would lose minutes of dialogue for your favorite program! i cannot believe no one else has had any problem with this, but maybe it is due to the fact that they have cable tv and not antenna like we do.

the channels are slow to change, but you'll be lucky if thats your only problem with this tv. The sound cutting out is such a shame because the toshiba has better sound than any other brand of LCDs BY FAR. my recommendation is to get what i have in my bedroom a 32" toshiba regza 720/1080i. its a great tv. you wont be disappointed ( and comes from amazon for a nice price )

when turned on ,you get "please wait",you hear the dvd turning on(to check if working,i imagine), then it tells you the channel(which is good) but tells you whether it's analog or digital,don't care as long as the picture is o.k. Takes too long when you change channels because of this.I have a Toshiba 26" thats last years model w/ dvd that doesn't do any of these unnecessary extras,it blinks what channel you've selected and blinks off,the way it should. I wouldn't buy this model again. This years 26" doesn't do it either,only the 19" and 22".

Very nice TV. The picture is great, the DVD player is perfect, and I have it hooked up to both HD cable and two separate gaming systems (XBox 360 & Playstation 2) and both look great on the television. I'm very happy with it.