Here's yet another new guy from Toshiba's league of brainy TVs – the
Toshiba Regza 32AV636DB 32” LCD TV. The chip that
Toshiba calls MetaBrain is present in this Regza – which means a good lot of important features are well taken care of. This 32 incher is extremely good in terms of pictures – there is virtually no picture noise and 24p judder. There is uniformity in the rendition of everything – the TV doesn't lag anywhere. For example, the sun-baked canyons in Mackenna's Gold, the bronzed skin tones and the dull glitter of the gold-drenched Canyon del Oro are all rendered with exemplary clarity and detail.
The same can be said of rolls and rolls of pasture roses that we caught in the Discovery channel – this
LCD TV played with colours to perfection. The gentle changes in the landscape, the subtleties in the shades of the gentle flowers, the lush stretches of grass that accompanied it – all appeared amazingly real. They were in fact too real that we wondered if we were sitting in some run down shack on top of the Alps amid a sea of nodding flowers!
The
Toshiba Regza 32AV636DB HD-Ready LCD TV has a resolution of 1366 x 768pixels and a dynamic contrast ratio of 18000:1. According to Toshiba, the TV boasts Resolution+, an upscaling technology that can enhance the quality of standard definition images to that which is almost as good as HD. True, the quality of SD pictures in the 32 inch screens of this TV is good, but no, we don't agree with the fact that resolution+ has anything to do with that. We somehow do not seem to catch the difference.
Verdict:
Toshiba Regza 32AV636DB has a lot of nice qualities. And that includes affordability too. It's way too good for the price.
