Toshiba 37XV505D

Full HD specification ; clean, bright, crisp picture ; decent detail ; fine TV tuner

Blacks lack insight ; colour balance is a little rosy

Toshiba comes up with the goods again – a fine-value screen if you’re on a tight budget

Realistic colour ; Impressive black levels ; Polished menus ; Price

Colour banding ; Picture noise ; Digital TV interface ; Fiddly remote control

A good value 37in screen that offers cinematic pictures despite some issues with colour and picture noise

Deep black levels, vivid colours, easy to use

Picture noise in backgrounds, occasional colour banding

A basic TV aside from the Full HD resolution, Toshiba has packed in just enough to provide a reasonable value way into high-def, though there are some minor problems with the picture that are hard to ignore

Other standard-definition sources connected via SCART exhibited a little interference, so it’s worth using boxes with HDMI outputs for best quality. Sound quality was above average, with a generous helping of low frequencies giving a warm tone,...

1080p panel allows for excellent detail reproduction from 1080 sources ; 1:1 mapping option removes overscan on 1080 sources for optimum quality ; Excellent calibration options, readily accessible ; Excellent colour decoding ; 1080p/24 input allows for...

Black level and contrast are lacking ; Limited off-axis viewing angle ; Settings are saved per-profile rather than per-input ; Exact Scan" mode needs to be re-enabled sometimes (see Usability) ; EPG is unresponsive ; Remote control unsatisfying

Toshiba 37XV505D LCD television comes across as being strongly centered around one principle: value for money. Toshiba's inclusion of a 1080p panel (itself a premium feature) in a relatively inexpensive HDTV is commendable, to say the least. The detail...

The price was good for the size of the tv and the fact it was full HD.

The picture on normal digital tv was not as good as I would have expected. I dont think I needed to have a full HD TV for what I needed it for. Sometimes the skin tones especially on the BBC channels seemed over exposed and un natural. I think the TV...

Excellent all-round performance for the price

A little slow to respond to remote control commands. User manual could be better, especially with regard to use of the receiver with analogue transmissions.

Seems to have it all

NA

Reasonably compact for size of screen

case is too dark

Easy to set up and tune in. Plenty of input points for various external appliances. Thinking of getting a larger monitor for your desktop/laptop no need with this great piece of kit use the PC inputs problem solved and money saved. Choices of the...

I have only given 9 out of 10, not ten out of ten,because there must be a bad point somewhere and I have not found it yet."It might not exsist"