Toshiba 23HLV84 TheaterWide 23" 16:9 HDTV LCD TV/DVD Combo with HDMI Input
Good screen, but really bad DVD player built in.
I'm amazed at how many great reviews this device has, given my experience.  I've just bought and returned one for work.  Sure, there were people (not many) who couldn't see the problems, but I don't see how any videophile could stand looking at it (turned on and playing a DVD internally, at least).   <br /> <br />First, the integration is really bad.  Put a DVD in and it turns on (of course).  It does NOT, however, switch to DVD mode.  Then when you manually switch modes you have to wait for it to spin up the DVD, I guess it thinks you just put the disk in for storage or something...  The few controls for settings are vague, limited, and there's a 100% disconnect between the player and the screen.  Yet another example: ejecting a disk while it's off... *if* it works you have to hold down the button quite a while, it turns the TV all the way on, *then leaves it on once the disk is out*... <br /> <br />It's an HD screen, and I'm guessing with an HD input or DVD player with HDMI out it'd look great.  That's because an HDMI out DVD player will almost certainly have some kind of 'upres' feature, whereas the built-in player appears to have none whatsoever.  The image is simply crudely stretched to be big enough to fill the screen, and the result on the 23\\" LCD looks far worse then DVI out of a $199 player to a 50\\" plasma we also have here.  The settings of course give you no control over this process, no way to view the image at native pixel resolution or any other tweaks that one may want.   <br /> <br />They really spared every expense with the DVD player by the way, I have never used a DVD player so slow to respond to commands, such as selecting a chapter from the DVD menu, and when it does it usually visually screws it up, starting to start, pausing (maybe showing the menu again for a couple frames) then actually starting, etc.   <br /> <br />Finally, there is a warning included INSIDE the box that the HDMI input is not for use with computers, I don't know if they screwed up the HDMI implementation or are saying that because there's no pixel orbiter or what, but that and the fact that this is one of the only consumer electronic devices I've seen in years that is limited to 60Hz power only are yet more ways this unit disappointed me.  In the end I was very relieved to be able to return it.   <br />