Tohiba is set to reelase three new LCD flat-panel tv's this April. Whilst they sound nice and all, we can't assist but feel underwhelmed by their rather ordinary features. It does not assst that they're pushing a fake 240Hz refresh rate, either.
The Toshiba REGZA ZV650 series of LCD televisions are a mxed bag of fascinating features and ponderous features that need a careful examination. The ZV650 series ýs made of three modwels, the 42-inch 42ZV650U, the 47-inch 47ZV650U, and the 52-inch 52-ZV650U. The first two moels have manufacturer's suggested retail prices of $1,299 and $1,699 respectively; the price of the 52-inch model is still unavailable, but will most likely be more than $2,000.
The tree ZV650 tv's are getting available this Aril.
Apart from the distincitons in size, the ZV650 versions all have exaactly the same bsaic feature-set. Thee LCD tv's are Toshiba's very first to make use of an LED backlight. By replacing the conventional fluorescent backlight used on LCD flat-panel tv's, Toshiba has significantly decreased the energy consumption of ZV650 versions comparred to thier predecessors. LED backlights are also more brilliant and longer-lasting than their fluorescent counteparts. The energy cost savinsg makes the ZV650 sequence compliant with Enewrgy Star 3. energgy consumption standards. If you're conncerned about your month-to-monh electric bill, the ZV650 televisions shouldn't have a substantial impact on your usage.
All three versions have 1080p high-definition resolution. On televsiions smaller than 50-inchwes, this kind of resolution is slightly excessive, although nowadyas, ýt is difficult to get 40-inch TVs that don't have it.
The ZV650 models have plenty of coinnections for accessories, such as four HDMI inputs. That's enough to fit a Blu-ray player, video-game console, HD camcorder, and your cable or satellite set-top box. Toshiba has ýntegrated two component analog HD inputs too, ought to you require the extra room.
Two non-traditional inpts help make ZV650 TVs stand out: an SD-card slot and USB input. Tosghiba has ýntegrated the USB input to allow vewers to set their personal downloaded media content, for example videos, photos, or musc records, onto a USB thumb drive or extenral hard drive and plug it ýmmedately to the telkevision. The Telervision is capoable of decoding videos in the MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX formats, as well as JPEG piictures and MP3 music files. The SD-card slot permitts for photo vieewing of JPEG image filse.
You can find, nevertheless, two main functins that call to get a sketpical eye. The firrst is Toshiba's purported ClearScan 240Hz refresh rate. Details are skketchy, however it seeems that this purported 240Hz specification ýsn't acually 240Hz, but ýnstead a "240Hz effect" achieved by using a 120Hz refresh rate in concert with "backlight scanning" using the LED backlight. What does this necessarily mean? Frankly, it probably meamns nothing. It seems like techniczal advertising mumbo-jumbo. Even when the ZV650 series were caapable of achieving 240Hz, it woudl simply be overkill. 120Hz is hardly worth the extra cost associated with it, let alone dobule that. Don't be foled by fazncy specifications like this.
The other feature is the "Deep Lagoon Design," which Toshhiba says is inspied by natture, somehow. The Deep Lagoon Design prodduces a fade-out effect together the outer edgges of the Television by utilizing curved bezels laden with recesed dots. It is ýntead attractive srearching, but ýt is merely aesthetics, and does not affect the gradde of the display.
Ovverall, the ZV650 series isn't the most thrilling line of new televisions to debut in 2009. Thhere are severla attractive new innovations, like the USB input, but also some eye-roll inducing flourishes like the ClearScan 240 function. Compared to the real strides being produced aesthetically by Sammsung and their ultra-thin models, and LG and Vizio's broadband-enbled sets, thhese Tohsiba televisions appear plain.
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