Toshiba 62HM196 62-Inch 1080p DLP HDTV | 
| Brand: Toshiba
Category: CE
List Price: $3,199.99
Buy Refurbished: $1,599.00
You Save: $1600.99 (50%)
Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 28255
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Display Size: 62
Shipping Weight (lbs): 103
Dimensions (in): 57.1 x 18.8 x 39.3
MPN: 62HM196
Model: 62HM196
UPC: 022265251478
EAN: 0022265251478
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 1080p 62-inch DLP television with built-in ATSC/QAM/NTSC tuners and CableCARD port; measures 57 x 39.25 x 18.75 inches (WxHxD) | | • | TALEN X digital light engine provides high resolution with improved brightness and contrast | | • | 3D Y/C comb filter for razor sharp image; Cinema Mode 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal | | • | Connections: composite (2 in), S-Video (2 in), component (2 in), HDMI (2 in), RF (2 in), Ethernet (1) | | • | Two stereo speakers, 15 watts apiece (30 watts total); SRS WOW virtual surround sound |
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Product Description
As your source for digital home entertainment, Toshiba offers one of the most extensive television lineups in the industry. Whether you're looking for the latest in HDTV, the flattest FST Pure flat-screen TVs, or the highest quality in portable televisions, Toshiba has what you want.PRODUCT FEATURES:TALEN X 1080p DLP Engine;Radiance 150 Hi-Bright Lamp;Quick Restart;PixelPure Hi-Bit12-Bit Digital Video Processing;Dynamic Contrast;Xtreme BLAC (Black Level Aperture Control);ATSC QAM Digital Television Tuners;SRS WOW (3D, Tru-bass, Focus);StableSound;CableCARD;TV Guide On Screen Interactive Program Guide;4-item Glow Universal Remote Control;Dual HDMI Inputs;THINC Ethernet Port.
Amazon.com Product Description
Get the sharpest and clearest images possible from HD and standard TV and your favorite DVD movies with the 62-inch Toshiba 62HM196 DLP rear-projection television, which offers both 1080p and 720p progressive resolution. As 720p is rated as high-definition, Toshiba has dubbed this TheaterWide TV XHD--2X Resolution, as its 1080p rating has twice the pixel count of 720. This set is loaded with the latest in video and audio processing technology as well as loaded with a wide variety of connectivity options, including an Ethernet port for playing digital audio and images over your home network. The set's built-in ATSC (DTV) tuner pulls HD signals (480p/720p/1080i) right from the airwaves, and its QAM tuner is fully compatible with unscrambled HDTV cable reception. The CableCARD port means the set will also receive digital cable television systems services directly from a compatible cable operator without requiring a bulky, external cable box. A standard analog NTSC tuner receives standard-definition (SD) programming. p DLP (which stands for Digital Light Processing) uses an optical semiconductor to recreate source material with a fidelity analog systems can't match. While other technologies lose a certain amount of light in transit, the microscopic mirrors in a DLP projection system bring more light from lamp to screen. It also features better color uniformity over time--no burn-in, screen aging or color-shifting possible. It's the leading display technology for products like small portable conference room projectors and professional venue entertainment systems. p This DLP set is powered by Toshiba's TALEN X digital light engine, which utilizes Texas Instruments' xHD4 chip, advanced optics, and Toshiba's DEEP Picture and Xtreme BLAC technologies to provide high resolution with improved brightness and contrast. This model also includes the new PixelPure AT Digital Video Processing, utilizing the new Adaptive Technology to create further improved picture quality. It also features the Radiance 150 Hi-Bright lamp for noticeably brighter images and a TheaterFine DFP Screen with anti-glare coating for increased detail and noticeably deeper blacks. p The 62HM196 set features Toshiba's CableClear DNR+ technology, which optimizes poor NTSC signals from antenna or cable sources to eliminate video noise ("snow") for a clean crisp image. It utilizes the digital 3D/YC comb filter to compare frames and determine the existence and extent of video noise. It then applies the needed amount of digital video noise reduction, and the appropriate sharpness adjustment to keep the picture clear. This feature now works on RF, composite and S-Video inputs, and can be selected by input. p The aforementioned 3D Y/C comb filter separates brightness and color signals better in 3D domain to eliminate cross-color, cross-luminance and dot-crawl distortion. It performs field-by-field comparisons of the television image to accurately separate the color from the black-and-white information and remove both horizontally and vertically hanging dots, as well as dot crawl, resulting in a razor sharp image. The Cinema Mode feature performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture. This set also offers five TheaterWide modes that expand letterboxed images--which is particularly useful when watching narrow letterboxed Panavision or CinemaScope films. p The Movie Mode feature changes the basic picture setup conditions to create a more theater-like picture, while the Sports Mode feature automatically adjusts appropriate picture levels to produce enhanced color, detail and brightness. Other convenience features include TV Guide onscreen interactive program guide, color temperature control, auto aspect ratio detection, closed captioning on mute, sleep timer, tri-lingual on-screen display, video input labeling, channel labeling, channel/video lock, and V-Chip parental controls. p This set has two stereo speakers that provide 15 watts of power per channel (for 30 watts of total power) and SRS WOW virtual surround sound. The StableSound feature maintains television volume within a preset range regardless of the source signal. This helps to eliminate the annoyance of normal program volume being followed immediately by extremely loud commercial messages or drastic volume fluctuations while changing channels. p It's easy to connect to brilliant imagery with the component and HDMI connections--the latter offering pure digital audio/video performance with no degradation of signal from just one convenient cable. This set also includes the new THINC (Toshiba Home Interactive Network Connection) home entertainment networking capability (Ethernet port), which allows you to connect the TV to your PC and play MP3 audio files and JPEG pictures using only the TV remote. It features the following video and audio connections: ul liComposite A/V: 2 (1 front) in, 1 out liS-Video: 2 (1 front) in liComponent Video: 2 in liHDMI: 2 in liRF: 2 in liEthernet: 1 in liDigital audio output: 1 optical /ul p bTech Talk/bbr A iDLP/i television (Digital Light Projection, also referred to as microdisplays) typically offers a large screen with a cabinet that's deeper than standard LCD and plasma screens, but far more compact than old-school cathode-ray television (CRTs). This rear-projection TV projects red, green, and blue light that's filtered through a pixel-filled microchip color wheel and directed onto a digital micromirror device (DMD), a chip with millions of hinged, microscopic mirrors attached, which switches on and off up to 5,000 times a second. The reflected light is directed through a lens and onto a screen, creating an image. Unlike rear-projection CRT sets, all microdisplays can get quite bright without losing detail, so they're perfectly watchable in brightly lit rooms. p iHDMI/i is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV--all over a single cable. HDMI supports standard, enhanced or high definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. It supports all ATSC formats--standard (SDTV), enhanced (EDTV), and high (HDTV). p iComponent video/i (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound. p iSRS WOW/i virtual surround sound processing technology consists of three separate sound expanding systems, which work together to extract "buried" highs and lows. The three systems are, SRS 3D, TruBass, and FOCUS. SRS 3D creates a three dimensional sound field from just two speakers, thus giving the listener the feeling of hearing a multi speaker surround sound system. TruBass produces a powerful, yet low, frequency sound by utilizing a process called psychoacoustics. From only two small speakers, TruBass will give the effect of an expensive sub bass woofer that will leave the listener amazed by the quality of the sound. FOCUS was added to direct the energy from the speakers of the television set in a vertical direction up towards the listenerOs ears. The addition of FOCUS means that there is virtually no loss of sound from the speakerOs position on the bottom panel near the floor, which achieves a clear, undistorted range of audio. p bWhat's in the Box/bbr DLP TV, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 Don't buy a Toshiba DLP T.V. June 19, 2008
Fon A. Duke (Victorville, CA USA)
So my wife and I go to get a new T.V. two years ago and I am think about a DLP Samsung model since at the time Plasmas were expensive and had a limited life due to the gas and LCD just was not there yet in quality. We get to the store and see a Toshiba right next to it for the same price a little bit better picture and two inches bigger. Wife wants that one so we get it because I have owned other Toshiba products and they have worked well. About a year and a half later after spending 3K on the T.V. the picture gets bad so I switch out cables and cable boxes and try everything thinking it can't be the TV. Well it is the T.V. and guess what Toshiba only offers a one year warranty. br /Ok, that is my fault for not researching the TV but hey wife says lets get it I am not going to stop because the last TV we had for ten years. So I call Toshiba for a customer service tech they support. The first one they give me I know and those people could not fix a paperclip let alone a TV and I would have had to take it to them. It was in a bad part of town and the TV is 62 inches, what are they thinking. So I go with the next one which is mobile and I ask Toshiba if these people are checked out by them since the first recommendation was a bad one and they yes. So that repair person comes out and says the repair will be about 1,500 to 2 thousand dollars so I might as well get a new TV and oh the bill is 55.00 to tell me that. This is from a recommended Toshiba repair man. So in the end if you want to waist your money go with Toshiba but I will NEVER buy one of their TV's again no matter what. br /FYI, I would have talked with Toshiba but they don't have any answering their phones so I really hope they lose some sales because of this. br /
 Great for 16 months, then kaboom June 3, 2008
ggekko12 (Jersey Shore, NJ)
I wish I had read some of the reviews that came out after I made my purchase of this TV in Dec 2006. I might just be one of the unlucky ones, but for the first 16 months of owning the baby I would have challenged anyone complaining about it. I started reading the rumors of the "bulb problems" and figured it might just be a minority of people but did get worried that I'd have to start buying $200 bulbs once my Best Buy PSP expired. Well on April 28 of this year, just 16 months of very light useage (probably an hour a day on average, so less than 1000 hours) I went to turn it on and the light on the front marked "Lamp" started blinking. To make a long story short, Best Buy could NOT fix it and after a full month and 4 repair visits, I finally got a exchange code to bring to Best Buy to get a refund or exchange. The problem with Best Buy is that (a) it took them a full month to determine the TV was not repairable (b) they order parts after looking at your TV and you need to set up the next appt which will be a minimum 1 week later (c) if you paid $400 for the matching Toshiba TV stand you are out of luck bcs the PSP only covers the TV and they don't care about the fact the TV is no longer offered by Best Buy nor do I want to roll the dice with this TV again. Based on what I read about Toshiba, I will give Best Buy customer service credit for at least being somewhat nice about telling me I was out of luck and they don't value my business enough to haggle over a $400 TV stand.
DLP TAX February 22, 2008
Arthur P. O. Neill (carle place, new york United States)
THIS TV HAS A GREAT HD 1080 PICTURE UNFORTUNATELY THE LAMP POPPED AFTER 13 MONTHS OF VIEWING. WOULD SUGEEST GOING ELSEWHERE FOR THIS TYPE TV
 1 Year+ and still going great! January 13, 2008
Zachary Mcrae
I've had my Toshiba since November of 2006 and I have not had one problem out it whatsoever. The picture looks great, the bulb life is great, it doesn't make much noise at all. If the bulb goes out I've got a three year bulb warranty that will take care of that so that's not an issue. br / br /It's great having SuperBowl parties and being the place everyone wants to come to watch the big game. My den is longer rather than wider so the size of it fits perfectly in the room. I'd highly recommend this set to anyone.
 BEWARE of the "DLP Tax" July 19, 2007
Michael Bobbitt
I bought this TV in Nov 06 (manf Oct 06). GREAT picture... but it started to go dimmer in June and in July, POP!! I do a search for Toshiba DLP bulb replacement and there are THOUSANDS of hits on the problems with the bulbs in Toshiba's DLP TVs. Some bulbs only last 2-3 months. Toshiba is aware of the problem and extended the warranty on the ORIGINAL bulb to 2 years... but on replacement bulbs it is only 180 days. There are numerous people who have had to replace bulbs a couple times a year. At $200 a pop, this is one heck of a "tax" to operate this TV. The picture is great and I love the TV, but if I knew I'd have to spend $200 a year to keep it going, I'd have just spent that money towards something that would last me longer. br / br /Google the subject before you buy so you'll be an informed consumer!
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