Sleekly designed in a stylish black cabinet, the 37-inch Toshiba REGZA
37HLV66 HDTV brings together Toshiba's latest technological innovations
for video with stunning clarity and brilliant colors. It also includes
an integrated, full-featured progressive scan DVD player as well as an
Ethernet port for playing digital audio and images over your home
network. It pairs the super-fast Cinespeed LCD panel with the PixelPure
Hi-Bit digital video processor, which provides 16 times the gradation
levels of competitors' 8-bit systems, for smoother, more natural images.
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. A standard analog NTSC tuner receives
standard-definition (SD) programming. It comes with a tabletop stand
that can be removed for wall mounting (with optional hardware). All REGZA models feature the new CineSpeed LCD panel with a 33 percent
faster response speed 8ms (milliseconds) and a wide 176 degree viewing
angle, enabling everyone throughout the room to enjoy the screen. The
PixelPure Hi-Bit digital video processor uses 12-bit picture processing
(up to 14 bit internally) to create 4,096 steps of gradation (steps
between the whitest white to the blackest black) for the smoothest
transition possible from the darkest parts of the picture to the
lightest. It also improves real speed progressive scanning, video noise
reduction, sharpness, and gamma control. (If you were wondering, REGZA
stands for Real Expression Generated by amaZing Architecture.)
The 37HLV66 has a 1366 x 768-pixel resolution, true 16:9 aspect ratio,
400 cd/m2 (candeal per square meter) brightness rating, and 800:1
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 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. The GameTimer feature 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. Other convenience features
include 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.
The 4 MB, 10-bit digital 3D Y/C comb filter (with vertical contour
correction) 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.
This set has two stereo speakers that provide 10 watts of power per
channel (for 20 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.
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 offers the following
connection options:
- Composite A/V: 2
- S-Video: 1
- Component Video: 2
- HDMI:
1 - RF: 1
- PC VGA: 1
- Digital audio out: 1 optical
Tech Talk
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).
SRS WOW 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 listenerÕs ears.
The addition of FOCUS means that there is virtually no loss of sound
from the speakerÕs position on the bottom panel near the floor, which
achieves a clear, undistorted range of audio.
What's in the Box
LCD HDTV with slot-loading DVD player, remote control
(with batteries), power cable, tabletop stand, printed operating
instructions
