Toshiba 26LV610U LCD combo

I purchased this TV to replace a much smaller TV for the bedroom.

The picture quality and sound are about what I was expecting.
I am hard of hearing and have no problem in hearing the sound.
It is easy to plug in extra speakers to boost the sound and that
is what I have also done. I am getting sound from internal and ext.
speakers now. I don't expect theater sound, but with the extra spkrs.
(fairly cheap Altec Lansing), the sound is def. more than I need now.
The picture quality is better than most TV's of this type, but as
many have noted, it is far better when you are directly in front of
the TV and esp. not at an angle below the TV. I have manually tilted
the TV downward and the picture is much better now while lying in bed.

So.... even tho the sound was already good or better than most as is,
the sound is much more improved with the cheapie external speaker and
the picture quality problem has been solved. I do wish that Toshiba
had made the stand so it could be tilted w/o having to resort to manually
tilting it.

The built in DVD player seems to work OK. I have not used it much but
seems to function appropriately. Just played regular DVD's with it.
I did try to play some jpgs and it is one of the worst at doing that
I have used.... (comparing it to other DVD players much older). I
would have expected it to be superior in this area, but it is very
slow advancing from picture to picture. Nothing about this feature
(displaying jpg's) seems to be intuitive. Would be nice if there
would be a firmware update and fix this, but I doubt there will
be.

My worst grip is the remote. The features are labeled with lettering
that makes it very hard to find two of the most used features that I
use.... "picture size" (depending on air TV or DVD) and also the
"source" button. I use these often and am slowly learning where to
find them, but it is aggravating to have to spend time looking for them.
I am considering getting a marker or something to physically label
these two buttons.


All in all, it is a good TV and I believe I would buy it again even
tho I usually prefer the Sony brand which we have in the den.