Great Picture, Component input, S-Video input, Price

S-Video not shared with Composite

My wife and I purchased this TV without fully thinking about it much. We love it. She encouraged me to get a TV with the Component Video input while all along she purchased me a Toshiba SD-2109 DVD player that has Component outputs for Christmas. I can say one thing, Component Video on this is absolutely awesome. The Reds, Greens, Yellows, Blues all stand out off of the screen. We have it plugged into our Home Theater system running Dolby Pro Logic (Need DD some day). So, 5 star rating, We got it at a steal of $579.00. Buy Buy Buy!!!

The picture quality is great on this set and watching DVDs through the component input is fantastic. It's easy to setup and adjust as well. Definitely well worth the $600, this is the best 32" you can get in this price range for the features and quality.

great comb filter, component video, s-video, price

could use 1 more video input

This is my second review of this tv now that I have had a little more time with it.
After calibration tv looks outstanding. Colors are dead on. Widescreen and full screen DVDs look great. No artifacts or dot crawl. I have the sharpness set on 3. Warmth on medium setting. Contast and brightness I have set a little above calibrated amounts because I watch in a room that is not completely darkened. Contrast at 5(4 correct). Brightness at 6(5 correct). Noticed some flashing with certain scenes but that is just an error in the recording of the video tape. Never happens with DVDs or Satellite feed.

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Component inputs, excellent general picture quality

inadequate video inputs, weak PIP functionality

After reading reviews here and elsewhere, we bought this TV to match our Toshiba 6109 DVD/amp unit. Aside from general quality and value, the main attraction was compatibilty with the dvd player: in particular, the DVD remote control functionality with the TV and the component inputs.

Generally, I am quite pleased with the set. Good quality.

The main gripe I have is that Toshiba has crippled versitility of this unit by allowing only 2 video inputs. Video 1 has a shared S-vid and composite connector, and Video 2 has a shared component and composite connector. (This answers the question the previous poster asked of why only 2 component jacks--it's because the third is shared.)

Moreover, there is NO way to work around this limitation by using switches, since having cables inserted into S-vid or component outlets, EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO SIGNAL, will distort (component) or eliminate (s-vid) the composite signal.

It would have been an easy matter to add a third input for composite only, so that all three sources could be used at once. Three more jacks would have done the trick. As it is, the only way to use devices with all three inputs is to get behind the TV and switch cables, which will be impractical for many users and a pain for all of them.

If anyone has a workaround for this, I'd love to be enlighted--please post here.

I wish I would have known about this limitation before purchasing the unit. I probably would have bought it anyway, but it never occoured to me that a TV with this added functionality would be crippled in this way. I wonder if there's a design reason for it I don't know about...?

Great Picture especially via Color Stream output to a Toshiba DVD.

Minimum A/V jacks and S-Video on this unit.

The Toshiba CZ32V51 is a great set. However, I went with the Toshiba CZ32V61 because of the extra A/V, S-Video connections, dual Tuner & PIP. The V51 and V61 are the same as far as great picture and the V61 costs about $150 more. As far as I could tell from reading the specs, this offers the same Toshiba video components as the Cinema Series 32" which I also looked at. This is the TV to purchase if you also have a Toshiba DVD, e.g. a SD-3109. The DVD picture with the Color Stream is just fantastic. I looked at the 32" vs. 36" sets and opted for the 32" based on the cost. The extra 4" just was not worth the increased cost, IMO. Got my CZ32V61 TV from Best Buy for $750 including a free TV stand (the V51 goes for $600). It seemed the shipping costs for buying via the internet ommited most of the savings, so I went to Best Buy. For my speakers, A/V reciever, and DVD player, I purchased all of these via the internet.

Thought this Toshiba 32" TV was as good as the Sony WEGA, but I'm no audio expert, and it certainly IS better when considering its lower cost compared to Sony. This is the first non-Sony TV I have had in over 15 years..., and I am very happy with this Toshiba 32" TV thus far. For the cost vs. features, I am rating both the V51 and V61 with 5 stars.

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Component video inputs, price, looks

Multiple reception and interference problems

Endless problems with horizontal lines going up the screen and dark green patches in the corners. I don't know. I guess I wasted $600.

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Inexpensive, quality Toshiba picture.

Wondering about only 2 ports for the component input.

Well, after reading everyone's reviews, I went out and picked up this model. I didn't get it as cheap as everyone else ($629 + tax, cheapest in town) though. Everything is fine, except when I look at the back of the TV where all the inputs are, there are only 2 plug holes for the Component hookup. Every other component connection I have ever seen has 3 plug holes, and so does my Component Out on my Sony DVD player. So what gives? How am I going to plug in my Sony DVD player to my TV if the OUT on my DVD player has 3 plugs, and the IN on my TV only has two (green and red). Someone please explain this. Thanks.

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Good Picture

Very sensitive to magnetic fields (from center channels), Video inputs arrangement (don't like the shared component/composites and composites/SVHS), quality of video input plugs (careful, you can pull these out very easily), remote, speakers (low on the TV, sound like Bose), stand, and video adjustment (had to use cool temperature and theater mode to adjust the set with Video Essentials to approximate colors).

First of all this is a TV that a friend of mine bought but I set it up for him (and about 10+ other TV for others not including the 6 that I own).

Personally even with all the stated weaknesses of the above, this is still a very good set. I recommend not using the speakers on the TV and buy a surround system to go along with it. I do question the recommended TV stand as it raises the TV high enough to fire sound at your knees or the ears of short children sitting on the floor (I personally think is a bad design).

The two things that really stood out and bugged me and made me question the quality of this set are the way a CC affects the picture and quality of the composite/component video jacks. I wish they would of put the TV's speakers along the top so you can put the CC directly on top of it without distorting the color makes me wonder about the build quality of this TV as I can put the same model CC (he and I both own a Mission 77C) on top of my Sanyo and Sharp with no discoloration (I even brought this center to his house with the same effect noticed as his own center). When helping him move and resetting his TV in another room, I was very dismayed at the quality of the jack terminal's build as two of the component video jacks came out with the cable when gently pulled (I have never had this problem dis/connecting over 100+ equipment, even cheap gear!) using RS interconnects that didn't even have the older style "death grips". It makes wonder if this TV is built for those to own it long enough for a HDTV replacement.

For last two previous posters, on where the component inputs are used the third component plugs into where the composite video input goes. To set it up so you can use the SVHS input (most likely for cable, satellite, or SVHS deck), composite (standard HiFi AVR, older Video game systems, etc), and components (DVD players) for video 2 you might can use a passive video switcher on input 2 so you can hopefully use the joint input of composite/component video input but I haven't tried this and don't know if this will work but it might be worth a shot (since most stores have generous return policies). Some of these switchers still have a notch filter for RF interference protection and might still affect the component video resolution of the DVD player but hopefully I'm wrong on this.

I give this set a value rating of 3 as I think HDTV is on the way soon and this is a temporary patch for things to come (sort of like recommending a DPL AVR with 5.1 inputs when there are great AVRs with the decoder built-in for a few dollars more) and with the way TV prices are dropping this just is an average buy at best considering that 36" will most likely be at this price by the turn of the year. Overall I give this a 3 as I think the ergonomics of a poorly matched stand (it looks good but is really bad for sound and to me performance always out classes appearance), magnetic sensitivity (they should know that this is most likely bought by people into HT, and a center channel will most likely be put on TOP of it), and lack of build quality of the video input jack makes me wonder if it will survive another relocation/redecoration effort (luckily it worked just pushing it back in, but was quite scary). I advise to at least settle with whatever video interconnects with this TV, you might not be given an option on an upgrade the way these things popped out easily though I still think this had one of the best pictures that I've seen after turning down the contrast (improved background resolution) quite a bit as well as the sharpness (eliminated the pixel glare imaging).

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Sharp picture. Plenty of video inputs.

Poor picture tube.

I had problems with the contrast. Whenever a dark object was on the screen, the picture became darker. When a bright object was present, it became darker. Very distracting! Also, a vertical "band" of lighter video often appeared to the left & right of bright objects (ie, a window). Last but not least, there was bending of the image on the top & bottom of the right side of the screen (but none on the left).

I had it checked out by a Toshiba Certified repairman who told me this was normal for all "high resolution TV's". So I returned it and purchased a Sharp 32L-S400B which has none of these problems (and cost $150 less).

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Component inputs, picture, color adj. controls

heavy

good TV for entry level home theater, combined with toshiba DVD and onkyo receiver, I don't know why so many people report poor color or lines, bought from best buy, only TV below 800 dollars with component inputs.

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