Toshiba 26HL83P 26-Inch TheaterWide LCD Flat-Panel TV with Desktop Stand
Very sharp picture, less good software
I bought this TV based almost entirely on the quality of the picture; it blew everything else away. I'm still very happy with this.<br />However, the software is less impressive.<br />The picture quality is undoubtedly a product of algorithms ensuring good contrast and range, and the picture can be further tweaked to viewer preferences. So far, so good.<br />It would seem to me that it would be fairly easy to write code that would determine the aspect ration of the picture being fed into the TV and adjust the picture accordingly. This could be overidden by the viewer. Similarly, it should be possible to access the inputs and determine which one had a signal. Instead, one has to mess around with the picture size and inputs which involves finding the remote control....<br />I don't know whether this is a problem with all modern TVs or not, or perhaps most users are not so fussy about bits of the picture disappearing off the edges. With this model, this aspect of its design could definitely be improved.<br />While I don't use the internal speakers, I have tried them out; the quality of sound is really very good for a TV.