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Toshiba Regza 55SV670U
The Toshiba Regza 55SV670U
LED HDTVs have become increasingly popular this year, stealing the spotlight from conventional LCD sets. After all, they are highly energy efficient, long-lasting and produce even deeper black levels. They can be very expensive, too, though, which is why the Toshiba Regza 55SV670U, at a price of as low as $1869, is well worth considering.
Design
The Toshiba Regza 55SV670U is a stylish piece, with the transparent sheet coating the entire front panel giving off the illusion that it is fashioned from a single pane of glass. Otherwise, its design is the same as the ZV650U series - its sleek black frame fading into silver - hundreds of tiny silver cubes, in fact - towards the edges where it is gilded by a shiny metal frame and the same color scheme applying to its swiveling stand.
The clicker that comes with the 55SV670U is also black and silver, with large, well-placed buttons in a variety of sizes that make them easy to find even in the dark in spite of the absence of a backight. The on-screen menu is also user-friendly enough, with highly legible text and a simple layout, although it would have been more so if it had explanatory text running along the bottom.
Screen/Picture Clarity
Like other LED sets, the 55SV670U delivers superbly deep black levels to justify its 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio, which makes the rest of the image details sharper and the other colors more vibrant and realistic. Unfortunately, it also suffers from blooming problems, with the bright areas slightly spilling onto the darker parts of the screen - an effect more discernible when viewed off angle. There are also instances when the backlight fluctuates, sending bright flashes of light into the dim areas.
Its 240Hz refresh rate takes care of motion blur, while its dejudder processing and anti-blurring mechanism can be turned on and off separately. De-interlacing either film-based or video-based sources is not a problem either, especially when the Smooth setting of the Film Stabilization mode is engaged. The picture quality of standard definition sources is even enhanced with its Resolution+ mode.
Features
Several other picture controls are provided, including five adjustable picture modes, five aspect ratio selections and full color temperature controls. While the Toshiba Regza 55SV670U lacks interactive and picture-in-picture capability, it is capable of handling videos in DivX format, and offers solid connectivity with four HDMI inputs - three at the back and one at the side - along with a PC input, two component video inputs and both a USB and SD card slot for easy picture, video and music sharing.
The Toshiba Regza 55SV670U may not be the best LED HDTV out there, but it certainly performs well enough to live up to its price - which is comparably low. If you want an LED set and excellent blacks to boast of, then, without paying too much, you can start checking out the 55SV670U - either that or start saving up for a better-performing LED HDTV.
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There isn’t much original feedback for me to add. Most of it’s been said.
The picture is vivid, and is the most accurate out of the box I’ve ever seen. All I did was turn the ‘color’ and ‘brightness’ down a little (I’ve always preferred a slightly subdued picture).
I was initially concerned about inputs. My TVs are always plumbed into my stereo and home theater systems. I use my preamp as the audio hub and my TV as the video hub. None of my gear is new enough to have HDMI, but there were still sufficient connections on the TV.
Someone please tell me if I break a rule here about naming magazines…
There is a professional review in the Nov 09 Home Theater Mag (it’s also online). It’s one of their recommended TVs. A well known cosumer mag (that likes to sue if they’re named and quoted) ranks Toshiba LCDs as some of the least trouble prone LCDs, and recommends the REGZAs.
If I have any quality troubles down the road, I’ll update this. Right now, I am completely satisfied. Let me add that Amazon was on the ball too. Again. TV was here four days sooner than promised, and in excellent condition.
I also did a lot of research when looking for a new LED tv. You cannot find another tv that has the same features for this price. The closest was the Samsung unb6000. Samsung matched everything the toshiba had except the local dimming and 240 hz refresh rate. The thickness didnt matter to me becuase the Toshiba is only 4 inches deep, so you really could hang both sets. My only complaints about the 67OU is the screen can give off some glare and the color green is not as accurate as it should be. Oh btw - I paid $1000 less for the Toshiba!
Phenonimal television and at a terrific price compared to other LED’s of the same size. Extremely easy to wire up to a surround sound system and even easier to operate with nothing but a stellar picture! Worth the wait and do not regret a single thing about the Toshiba LED 55 television.
I have had this Toshiba 55SV670U for about one week. My decesion to pick this set over the Samsung 7100, Samsung 950, Sony XBR8 and LGH90 did not come without a carefull examination of the picture quality on all the sets. (I eliminated plasmas as they appeared rather dim to me.)
My desire was high brightness, sharpness and high contrast ratios. The weight and thickness was not that important as I only planned on moving this set once or twice. I will be looking at the picture more often than looking at the side view.
This model Toshiba is now using a similiar front layer as Samsungs and it has improved the contrast ratio signifiantly. The blacks are much darker using this front material. I know it will reflect lights from behind me, but I’ll block the window with a shade…. I would rather have that problem 10 % of the time than have the matte finish distort the picture 100 % of the time.
The only way to improve contrast ratio is to locally dim. All the above do locally dim except the Samsung 7100. I questioned how the Samsung 7100 could have a single backlight and be able to make selected areas blacker. I found this Samsung set to have a slight blue hue over the whole picture. However, the Samsung 7100 would have been my second choice.
The Sony XBR8 and the Samsung 950 had the best pictures - just too expensive for the RGB backlighting and Just not worth
$ 1500 to $ 2000 more to me.
The Toshiba 55SV670U gave me the local dimming, an anti-reflective coated contrast window, 120 HZ scan rate and a bright long lasting LED display. I am completelty satisfied with this set…. and with and with its much lower selling price.
Drop in Mr and Mrs Smith in Blu Ray and you will ever regret purchasing this Toshiba
We bought a Toshiba REGZA about 18 months ago and were very satisfied. However, it just developed a major screen problem (1 inch by 3/8 inch dead spot), only a few months past the 12 month warranty. We contacted Toshiba, who was “unable to assist us with the cost of the repair.” It is out of warranty so they are within their rights, but it was a major cost to our limited budget and I would be reluctant to recommend it to others.
I researched and compared all the major brands, both plasma and LCD, in 52- to 55-inch size before making my purchase. Looks very good when off, and great when on! Very good sound from internal speakers, great amazon delivery service, and great value. In “real-world” viewing, I’ve never noticed any of the few shortcomings that some online and print reviews have mentioned as minor issues.
I’m not a videophile, and there may be units with better specs, but you can’t beat this Toshiba’s 55SV670U combination of features, performance, and price. Thoroughly satisifed with purchase and highly recommended.
I consider myself a tech savvy. I’ve been following consumer TV lineups and technology for months. from samsung to vizio, yes I checked them all out! This Toshiba does it the best in its class with solid picture quality and performance. if you are looking for an eye candy go get a samsung, but if you want performance in all aspects then this TV is for you.
I bought this set from amazon and had it for about 2 weeks now. The picture is amazing and the blacks are inky, deepest I’ve seen around! video processing is outstanding, handles motion really well. This LED TV delivers a great cinema-like experience.
Pros:
-Stylish single glass design
-Deepest inky blacks - Kuro like
-superior video processing - nicely removes judder and blur without adding video-game look
-amazing screen uniformity
-packed with pro-settings and tweaking menus, graphs, ambient light sensor and auto brightness feature
-Local dimming in its best
-no blooming, clouding, ghosting or flashing issues (known issues with LCDs)
-details in gray-black tones visible
-great value
cons:
-reflective screen (helps to achieve better contrast but could be an issue if you have a lot of windows)
-heavy
I’m very happy I returned my samsung LED for this unit. samsung LEDs (6000, 7000 and 8000 series) suffer from screen uniformity issues!
Buy this unit and you won’t be sorry.
Fantastic picture..i can’t give the sound 5 stars only because it is not surround..a great buy! Oh and did I mention how unbelievably amazing the blueray movies are on this set? You really should check out this TV!
When I was looking to upgrade from my 46 inch Sony Bravia, which I loved by the way, I looked at everything out there. I read reviews on all the 55 inch models and kept coming back to this Toshiba. It is a beauty. Picture quality is amazing. This tv is Huge compared to my old Sony.
If you are in the market for a 55 inch LCD/LED, this tv is a great choice. It has more features for less money than any television out there. Bought mine at a local appliance store, which came bundled with a blu ray player and HDMI cables, surge protector, etc. for under 2k.
Compared it to plasmas which all seemed too dark to me. I even looked at a 58 inch Samsung plasma on the display which had burn in on the screen. The clerk said it had only been there a month. When the screen went dark you could see the burn in. That completely turned me off to plasma.
You cant go wrong with this tv for the money!
Great picture. NFL Playoffs and Super Bowl were awesome to watch. BlueRay movies are crystal clear. Shipping form the vendor was Fast!