Eliminate clutter in your entertainment cabinet with the 26-inch,
HD-ready Toshiba MD26H82 flat-screen CRT television with integrated,
full-featured DVD player. It has a a widescreen, 16:9 aspect ratio (used
for high-def TV programming and letterboxed DVDs) and the set's built-in
ATSC (DTV) tuner pulls HD signals (480p/720p/1080i) right from the
airwaves. It also has a QAM tuner that's fully compatible with
unscrambled HDTV cable reception. A standard analog NTSC tuner receives
standard-definition (SD) programming. The MD26H82 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. Toshiba's CrystalScan HDSC technology
upconverts all video signals (including 480i/p) to 1080iHD, resulting in
a significant reduction in jagged line artifacts to create the sharpest,
most realistic picture possible from every source. The DVD player features compatibility with DVD-R, VCD, and CD-R/CD-RW
discs. With the JPEG Viewer, you can easily display your favorite
digital photos and create custom slideshows with a few simple clicks of
the player's remote control. You can play discs burned with MP3 and WMA
digital audio files, and it's also DivX Home Theater Certified--meaning
that it's compatible with video burned to disc using both the DivX video
format. The interactive Digital Picture Zoom feature allows you to
select an area of the video from a DVD and magnify it. This set also
includes a USB interface, enabling you to connect "mass storage
classification devices"--i.e., external hard drives, portable thumb
drives, and compatible MP3 players/digital cameras--and play JPEG, WMA,
MP3, and DivX files.
The FST PURE flat screen picture tube delivers increased viewing angles
along with the enhanced picture linearity necessary to produce accurate,
life-like images. This feature eliminates unwanted reflections from room
lighting, which is a common problem in conventional tube designs. It
also improves sharpness and brightness. 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.
It includes four Picture Preference presets (standard, sports, movie,
memory) as well as a Memory Mode that allows you to customize your own
settings and save them. Other features include a glow-key remote control,
sleep timer, video labeling, tri-lingual on-screen displays, and V-chip
parental control.
The MD26H82 has a space-saving bottom speaker design, and it can
produce virtual surround sound through its integrated speakers. It also
includes coaxial and optical digital audio outputs for connecting to a
surround sound home theater system in order to take advantage of the DVD
player's Dolby Digital and DTS decoding capabilities. The StableSound
feature eliminates the annoyance of normal program volume being followed
immediately by extremely loud commercial messages or drastic volume
fluctuations while changing channels.
Here's a full listing of the set's video and audio connections:
- Composite A/V: 2 (1 front)
- S-Video: 2 (1 front)
- Component Video: 1
- HDMI:
1 - RF: 1
- Digital audio: 1 coaxial, 1 optical
- USB: 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).
Component video (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.
What's in the Box
Flat-screen CRT television with integrated DVD player,
remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions
