Toshiba 37HL95 37-Inch Cinema Series Flat-Panel LCD HDTV
Toshiba 37HL95 sets a benchmark
Likes: <br /> <br />Picture is 99% as good as a Sony Bravia, without the outrageious Sony price tag. <br /> <br />Dislikes: <br /> <br />Mute button, pic size button and brightness button or \\"pic mode\\" buttons need a better location on the remote, where they are easily accessed by ones right thumb, as well as the channel up and down for scrolling and the volume. <br /> <br />We have Time Warner Cable and opted for the CableCard which is mfd and diestributed by Scientific Atlanta. We had problems with the first USED card installed in the PCMCIA slot. Never worked. Technician installed a second USED card. Worked for 15 minutes then crapped out. Pulled the card, restarted the TV, turned TV off, put the CableCard back in, restarted, reset all the info for HDTV and the card worked for about 5 hours while we watched the Winter Olympic Games on a Friday night. <br />Saturday Morning the TV upon starting up (booted up, it's a computer driven LCD) and the TV starts again from scratch, doesn't recoginize the CableCard.  Finally it goes through reprogramming the channel and ALL of the audio on the HDTV channels is gone. All the 1100 series channels have HDTV pictures with no sound. All the analog channels have sound. Go figure. <br /> <br />Later in the day, all the regular analog channels like CBS,NBC, ABC and Fox get updated by our cable company, TWC, to \\"digital\\" and now they are without sound also, in addtion to the HDTV channels.   <br /> <br />A search on the internet has the cable companies point the finger at Toshiba's software having a glitch. Funny, my take on it is when I pull the CableCard, yes I loose HDTV, but I lost the problems associated with no sound also. My gut feel is that TWC is pulling a \\"bait and switch\\" to get you to use a box and not the cable card.  Be patient, don't do it, the cable box offers an inferior compressed picture compared to the cablecard. <br /> <br />The Cable card also slows down the channel changing process to about 4 or 5 seconds between changing channels, or for that matter any input from the remote. Irritating how slow it is if you are a channel flipper.