Toshiba 23HLV86 23-Inch LCD HDTV with DVD Player

Product Description

A great choice for smaller rooms, the 23-inch Toshiba 23HLV86 LCD TV helps you save space while enjoying vibrantly colorful high-definition television programming. It features a built-in, 181-channel NTSC TV tuner for standard broadcasts, and can receive high-definition (ATSC) broadcasts from an optional HD tuner or cable/satellite set-top box. It also includes an integrated, slot-loading DVD player on the side, with compatibility with a wide variety of disc and digital content formats. The 23HLV86 makes it easy to connect to brilliant imagery with its component and HDMI connections--the latter offering pure digital audio/video performance with no degradation of signal--and it can also double as a PC monitor. This set also offers Toshiba's exclusive HD Dynamic Contrast function, which provides a sharper, deeper image with rich colors and a more life-like image.

In addition to standard DVD video and CD audio discs, the DVD player is also compatible with CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, and VCD discs as well as MP3, WMA, and JPEG (Kodak Picture and FujiColor CDs) content burned to disc. It's also DivX Home Theater Certified, meaning that it's compatible with video burned to disc using both the DivX video format. The DVD's Digital Picture Zoom function allows you to select an area of the picture you want to zoom in on and magnify it. Enhanced digital processing during moving video or freeze-frame playback produces superior color fidelity and resolution, even when you're zoomed in. Other DVD features include multi-angle viewing, fast scan, slow motion, and multi-subtitle selection.

The 23HLV86 has a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio--perfect for high-definition telecasts and DVD movies--1366 x 768-pixel resolution, 500 cd/m2 (candela per square meter) brightness rating, and 500:1 contrast ratio. (The higher the contrast ratio, the greater a TV's ability to display subtle color details and not get washed out by ambient room light.) It supports 720p (HDTV), 480p (EDTV), and 480i (SDTV) video formats. The GameTimer feature allows you to set the television to shut off after a specified period of time, and stay off until a lockout key code is entered. Other features include tri-lingual on-screen menus (English, French, Spanish), V-Chip parental controls, sleep timer, channel return, and channel labeling.

The 3D Y/C digital comb filter constantly analyzes the three dimensions of picture height, picture width, and picture changes-over-time, to reduce dramatically edge image artifacts while improving transition detail. The Digital Cinema progressive scan (3-2 inverse pulldown) function provides accurate, smooth film reproduction. The HD Dynamic Contrast feature increases Contrast and Color Saturation to create deep, rich images, analyzing both the dark and bright areas of the picture, and separately optimizing the dynamic range in each area of the picture.

The 23HLV86 has two stereo speakers that provide 5 watts of power per channel (for 10 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. This TV offers the following video and audio connections:

• Composite AV (RCA) In: 1
• S-Video In: 1
• Component Video In (Y PB PR): 1
• HDMI In: 1
• RF In: 1
• VGA 15-Pin D-Sub: 1
• Headphone: 1

Tech Talk
DivX is a compressed digital video format (like MP3) that's based on the MPEG-4 video compression standard. It can reduce the video from a DVD (MPEG-2) to around 10 percent of its original size while still retaining good video and audio quality, enabling you to store several two-hour length movies on burned DVD media.

HDMI 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).

HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) is a system for protecting DVD content outputted via DVI/HDMI from being copied. It provides a secure digital link between a video source (PC, DVD. etc) and a display device (TV, projector, etc). Content is encrypted at the source device to prevent unauthorized copies from being made.

What's in the Box
LCD TV, remote control (with batteries), stand, AV cable, power cable, printed operating instructions

Product Details

• 23-inch HD-ready LCD TV with integratd DVD player; measures 24,4 x 18.6 x 11 inches (WxHxD)
• DVD player compatible with DVD video, CD audio, DVD-R/RW, MP3, WMA, JPEG and DivX
• 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, 3D Y/C digital comb filter, 500 cd/m2 brightness, 500:1 contrast ratio, 1366 x 768-pixel resolution
• Inputs: 1 composite, 1 S-Video, 1 component, 1 HDMI, 1 PC VGA, 1 RF
• Two stereo speakers, 10 watts apiece (20 watts total)

Customer Reviews

Perfect for the kitchen or bedroom

Review Date: January 12, 2007

Reviewer: harmonious1, Cleveland, OH

Purchased this HDTV/DVD combo for my Dad's kitchen and he loves it. The DVD player handles almost every imaginable multimedia format including DivX. The TV has a sleek design and the picture is very clear and bright with no bad pixels. This is a real spacesaver due to the built-in DVD and the speakers being located on the bottom instead of on the sides.

Works great

Review Date: March 13, 2007

Reviewer: Joseph S. Montalbano, NJ

TV and DVD player work great. Picture is clear and sound is good. I ordered a good bracket to hang it on the wall. When you order a bracket make sure you buy a good one so it hol;ds the TV level.

Great price

Review Date: December 23, 2006

Reviewer: Tim, Cincinnati Oh

As one review stated the channel changing is a little slow if you're just channel surfing but other wise the picture is great and the dvd player will also play cds. I mounted ours on the master bedroom wall because I wanted to remove a 19in tv and stand that we kept our dvd and cd players in and it gave us more floor space by doing so. If you want more sound to knock you out of your chair or bed I suggest getting some speakers to add on. We are really pleased with our purchase. Also be aware of cost for wall mounts. They can be pricey.

Good

Review Date: August 31, 2006

Reviewer: Alvaro, Bogota, Colombia

Have been using it for 1 month, good product overall, good picture quality, good sound, price is fair and DVD player is a great feature. Only complain is that produces excessive heat at the back.

Toshiba 23" Good Value

Review Date: January 18, 2007

Reviewer: B. Rueppel,

I ordered the Toshiba 23HLV86 for x-mas. It came on time and all was as advertised. I like having the DVD as part of the TV as it saves space and minimizes cords etc. Only negative is the delay as you switch station to station - it takes longer then my old TV to switch.