Excellent HD picture. Nice size. No quality problems.

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I bought the Toshiba 42HDX81 42 inch HDTV about 5 months ago. I get one HD channel with my cable. The HD picture is great! As are the other digital cable channels. In my area we have broadcast TV reception problems so the over air picture is compromised because of this. The picture looks esspecially bright and clear. Better than I would have expected from a projection TV. I don't use the internal audio speakers but have it connected to a home theater system. I really like all the different input connection options, such as, multiple component video, s-video, etc. I also really like the push button auto-convergence. Although I haven't needed to use it yet. The 42 inch projection screen size is perfect for my rather small living room. The pop-up menus are well organized and understandable. I have had no problems. Looking forward to the eventual availability of more HD channels in my area.

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Lot's of inputs. Superior clarity and resolution. Excellent color and simple to setup.

Initial quality might be suspect.

Bought my TV on 12/30/03. It worked flawlessly for 3 weeks, then began to fail. Instead of 'fade to black' we experienced 'fade to green'. Called Consumer Direct. To their credit, they replaced the set immediately. They also let me take advantage of a price reduction which had occured. I give them very high marks. Inspite of the problem I had, I really like this TV! The HDTV reception is incredible! I receive HDTV over cable and our system has 6 HDTV channels. Most free network shows are now available. The set retains it's convergence and has tremendous brightness. Standard cable looks excellent when using the coax input. DVD's are oustanding and I don't have a progrssive scan DVD player. I can't imagine it looking better. I expect my second set to be fine. The vendor explained mine was only the second tv they've had to take back

Nice picture when it works.

Reliability problems. Poor customer support, seem to be unconcerned with customer satisfaction.

Just bought this TV about 1.5 months ago. Started out just great, really looked nice. But just recently it broke. The red just disappeared. I don't know if it's the red CRT or the decoder but there is no red. This thing broke after just over one month of use. Now I have to jump through hoops to get this thing serviced. I'm very disappointed with Toshiba. I read many reviews before purchasing this TV. Most were pretty good in terms of performance. But I did hear of a few scary stories of the TV having trouble very early on. And these stories included poor support from Toshiba. Now I find myself in the middle of one of those stories. Bad choice.