Ignore the sound, picture is what matters, May 22, 2011

I’m not sure why everyone complains about the sound on televisions. You shouldn’t be using TV speakers anyways. They’re horrible. I wish they’d just make all TV’s without speakers, save us all the trouble. Yes, the speakers on this TV are horrible, but I’d expect that. The picture is solid. The 120Hz works well (on animated movies, live-action movies in 120Hz looks weird on any TV, looks unnatural), images are sharp, brightness is great, however the LED lighting is not uniform, at least on mine. When the screen is on, but black, you can see the un-uniform lighting of the screen. Most of the time, this is not noticeable, but you do notice it during very dark scenes in games and movies. Also, I have seen the problem another review saw, where the backlighting will change brightness. I had to turn a lot of stuff off in the picture settings in order to get it to stop. The User Guide isn’t much help with the advanced image controls, so I just had to experiment. The Yahoo! apps are cool, as well as the Netflix app, but these are really just fluff features. While convenient sometimes, the novelty of looking at the weather on your TV wears off quickly. I’d rather have them spend the time on the backlighting issues. In all, it’s a solid TV with a good picture except for the issues I noted above. I got it for 0 at Fry’s on sale.

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Toshiba LED 42SL417U, May 24, 2011

First of all…the manual included is terrible, for a MUCH better one, go to Toshiba’s site…here –

Now…I haven’t had too many issues w/ this TV and I’ve had it in our bedroom for about a week now. The speakers are terrible, which was expected, especially on a super-thin LED tv…not a problem since I expected it but you’d think with the amazing sound quality they get out of headphones, that they could do something similar with smaller speakers huh?

I have had no issues after turning off the dynamic volume option and the auto dimming sensor option (would dim every time someone walked in front of the tv or if the sun covered up the clouds since it shines through our windows…was very annoying).

My games look fantastic on it and movies are great and the streaming is a very nice touch since I have a media server in the house. One issue I noticed was the sound is actually worse on the speakers whenever you’re streaming from a media server (as opposed to watching tv or gaming) as I streamed from my Ps3 and the sound from the video was fine even on the tiny speakers, but it was terrible when it was streaming straight to the tv from the media browser. I’m sure that I can remedy this once I hook up some ‘real’ speakers to it eventually.

All in all, it’s a great tv..slightly heavier than I expected it to be (think it weighs in at 35lbs?). It’s sleek, thin, picture is phenomenal. I have a 46″ Samsung LN46A550 in the living room and I notice this one having a much bright picture than my sammy. Overall…I’ve very satisfied and I got a great deal on it even if it is slightly large for a bedroom setting. ^_^

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Great bright picture, Wifi and other functionality are good!, August 5, 2011

Got this TV 3 weeks back, after the intial learning curve TV working great.
Picture (5 star): great picture Bright and sharp, give a sony a run for its money

Net TV (4 star): After the intial learning curve, worked seamlessly after hooking up the wifi. Had to call Toshiba Customer service to learn how to use Net TV ( was not very intutive). They were paitent and gave good tips on using the NET TV functionality. Netflix is good, however missing Huluplus

Compatiblity: Hooked ATT Uverse and Sony Blu ray HTS and TV worked perfectly fine with the U-verse remote.

Sound (3 star): As good as any samsung or sony in this category. However home theatre system is required for decent sound, which is true for other TVs also.

Software Update: Didn’t have much freezing of picture after s/w updates as said in other posts. Update was easy once wifi was installed. In the first hour of operating the TV once the TV froze and it was random clicks on buttons, probably part of intial anexity and learning curve. A call to customer service and could handle the remote better.

Overall, great picture, compatibility and feature for the price.

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