Toshiba 34HF85 34" TheaterWide HD-Ready Flat-Screen Direct View TV
Excellent widescreen HDTV at a terrific price.
If you currently have a conventional TV set with the traditional 4:3 aspect ratio but watch a lot of DVDs, you're probably tired of black spaces above and below the picture wasting much of your TV's screen size whenever you watch the widescreen movies which have become the norm on DVD. The cure for this problem is to get a widescreen TV with a 16:9 aspect ratio. This Toshiba is an excellent 16:9 TV with a very sharp picture. Also important, this is an HDTV set which is ready to display the dramatically improved picture quality characteristic of the new High Definition Television broadcasts to which all networks are rapidly converting and which are now available from most cable and satellite providers. Although this Toshiba's 34\\" screen may not be as huge as projection TVs and some of the new thinscreen plasma TVs, it is still quite large. Furthermore, it's picture quality is equal to plasma TVs and better than projection TVs -- and its price is much lower. All things considered if you want a widescreen TV that's ready for HDTV and you don't want to break your budget to get one, this excellent Toshiba set may well be the answer.    I note that several reviewers have advised against buying this TV, asserting that it is made by Orion for Toshiba, rather than by Toshiba itself. This is important because of the excellent reputaion of TVs built by Toshiba. I called Toshiba today and they asserted unequivically that this unit is built by Toshiba and not by any other company.