Perfect for smaller living rooms, the 27-inch Toshiba 27HL95 Theaterwide
LCD television provides vividly colorful images from standard and
high-definition television programming as well as DVD movies from its
integrated, slot-loading DVD player. It offers a 720p (progressive) true
HD display with a 1280 x 720-pixel resolution and 16:9 widescreen aspect
ratio. In addition to DVD movie and CD audio discs, this DVD player is
also compatible with DVD-R/RW, VCD, SVCD, HDCD, ECD, CD-R/RW discs and
MP3 files. It comes with a removable table stand, and this set can be
wall-mounted with an optional kit. This set has a built-in analog/digital/digital cable tuners
(NTSC/ATSC/QAM) that will receive free over-the-air HDTV signals (ATSC)
and HDTV signals from a cable connection (QAM). It's also Digital Cable
Ready (via the CableCard slot), so you can enjoy digital cable without
an additional box or remote using an optional CableCard. It also comes
with TV Guide On Screen and Toshiba's innovative Channel Browser "back"
button feature--similar to a PC browser back button--that allows easy
access to recently viewed channels.
You can use the 27HL95 as a computer monitor with its VGA 15-Pin D-sub
input. In addition to its HD component-video input, the 20HL85 has a
HDMI input terminal for direct digital connection with an HD set-top box
or HD Satellite receiver. This LCD TV has a 500 cd/m2 (candela per
square meter) brightness rating and 900:1 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.)
The 27HL95 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.
A 3D Y/C comb filter (4 MB, 10-bit with Vertical Contour Correction)
further enhances resolution by removing blurred edges between colors and
reducing dot crawl (tiny, moving dots of color along a sharp color
separation in a vertical line, as in a depiction of a character's
striped T-shirt). Toshiba's PixelPure AT (Adaptive Technology) includes
Motion Adaptive De-Interlacing, Adaptive MPEG Processing, Adaptive
Contrast Enhancement, and Adaptive Color Enhancement--all critical
elements to deliver a consistently high quality picture.
Convenience features include color temperature control, closed
captioning on mute, sleep timer, tri-lingual on-screen display, V-Chip
parental controls, video input labelling, channel labeling, and
Toshiba's GameTimer feature, which allows parents to set the television
to shut off after a specified period of time and stay off until a
lockout key code is entered.
The speakers provide a total of 10 watts of power (5 watts per channel).
The SRS WOW virtual surround sound system provides amazing, enveloping
sound through just the two built-in speakers. It also provides MTS
stereo/SAP with dbx.
It offers the following connection options:
- Composite AV (RCA): 1 in
- S-Video: 1 in
- Component video: 1 in (480i/480p/720p)
- HDMI: 1 in
- PC VGA:
1 in - RF: 1 in
- Analog audio (RCA, L/R): 1 out
- Headphone: 1
Tech Talk
SRS WOW -- This 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 listener's ears.
The addition of FOCUS means that there is virtually no loss of sound
from the speaker's position on the bottom panel near the floor, which
achieves a clear, undistorted range of audio.
HDMI -- HDMI makes an uncompressed digital RGB connection from the
source to the screen. By eliminating conversion to an analog signal, it
delivers an unblemished image. The non-degraded signal reduces flicker
and leads to a clearer picture. HDMI intelligently communicates the
highest output resolution with the source device. The HDMI input is
fully backward compatible with DVI sources but includes digital audio.
HDMI uses HDCP copy protection.
What's in the Box
LCD TV, remote control (with batteries), table stand,
printed operating instructions
