Toshiba 42WLT66

My 42WLT66 panel was faulty after 6 months, no picture, only sound. On AV forum the average faulty 6 to 7 months. On AV forum it was revelaed that this product is going to be discontinued.

Bought recently from Currys who said it would be delivered by Wednesday (3 weeks ago). The afternoon before delivery day they telephoned to say that it was not in stock after all. The woman on the phone got rude when I said I was disappointed at having to arrange another day off work to sign for delivery (it is an inconvenience). Another cancelled order Currys!!!

Went online, and got a better deal with Digital Empire. Paid, a couple of days later it was delivered to my house by them. 50 miles, Free. Good service (also (price matched Currys) and I asked for and got a good free Hi-Def connection Cable (£25) for the DVD player).

Autotune for Freeview was a cinch. I do not live in a designated area for Freeview, but the TV got all the stations and a great picture.

I hooked the TV up to a DVD Up-scaling player to watch (near Hi-Def) Quality movies from our extensive DVD collection [why buy blu-ray, when 'up-scaling' is the cheapest way to go and your existing DVD collection becomes magnificent?]

Now waiting for the PS3 for some serious quality games to take advantage of this 'best bang for the buck REAL HI-DEF (Currys floor staff misinformed me about Hi-Def) TV in the country for the money]. Am heading for Japan in early January (07), so will check out the PS3 there and just might post one to myself back in the UK.

Pat on the back for everyone at Toshiba.

And for Panasonic for the Up scaling DVD player (the only one that [currently] plays all UK DVD forms of discs and DVD-Ram (home movies).

For normal analogue TV, this Toshiba 42WLT66 42 in. doesn't stand out from the rest, but then, that's not what you're buying this for. For it's built-in digital freeview and the picture quality is nothing short of excellent and the sound is good too!

Where it excels is in it's HD features, especially with the xbox 360. The picture is jaw dropping!! Truly magnificent!! There's not many other HD ready devices yet but with 2HDMI sockets, this TV is more than ready for the future.

42 inches is probably overkill for a bedroom but I would still recommend it as it's available cheaper than other TVs of the same size but with lower screen specs!!