Toshiba 27A50 27" TV
Good TV with cool features
When I was in the market for a television, I really liked this model (Toshiba 27A50) for my budget. The 27 inch picture filled up my entertainment stand, forcing me to get a bigger one. The picture quality and sound are great. But anything was better than what I was replacing. This TV has a cool Picture-in-Picture feature that I really love. Although, at first, it was somewhat difficult to get it to work with my cable box and VCR. This feature keeps me and my wife on even ground. I can watch the game in the PIP window, while she watches her shows. You can swap back and forth very easily. This TV also has 'Colorstream' technology. This allows you to connect other components, such as a DVD player with 'Colorstream', to the TV to enhance the picture and performance. There are two inputs for components in the back of the TV. I like this setup. I can connect my DVD to the 'Colorstream' component video. Then connect my VCR to the other input. This way you don't have to connect your components to each other. They all go directly to the TV. The remote control is not the greatest. It has a slide bar on the left side to switch between TV, cable TV and VCR. Then you use the same buttons depending on what the switch is set on. Sometimes this switch has a mind of it's own. It gets positioned between the TV and cable TV settings then you change a channel (thinking its the cable TV channel) and the TV channel changes. Sometimes this gets to be annoying, but for the most part it's not that bad. The remote does glow in the dark, but you can barely see the buttons.