Toshiba 32AV504 - 32" Widescreen HD Ready LCD TV With Freeview Best Buy

HD Ready? - I'll never know! - 01 Apr 2008

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After much trepidation I decided to ditch my old faithful CRT TV in favour of a new HD Ready LCD.

When I saw the deal on Amazon to get a Toshiba with a free glass stand at a very reasonable price, I thought I'd take the plunge.

The free glass stand arrived within 2 days and the TV turned up the following day - and what a handsome TV it is, lots of connection options, easy to follow instruction manual and well packaged.

This is as far as my review can go as despite following the set up guide to the tee, the TV was unable to display a picture. Just a vague greyness emitted from the screen. I unconnected, reconnected, unconnected and re-reconneted everything until I was blue in the face - not a dicky bird or hint of a picture. I have a fair amount of experience with setting up and maintaining electronic equipment, but this counted for nothing when the TV provided was broken to start with.

Disappointing doesn't even come close. I thought Toshiba would be a household name one could trust, even going so far as to buy a matching Toshiba DVD player with upscaling - but seeing as though thats only compatible via HDMI I can't even test it via my old television. D'oh!

Avoid buying this TV and - if you can - purchase a TV from a high street store where you can complain in person rather than via email, which I'm currently having to do with Toshiba/Amazon.

If/when a replacement turns up, I may be able to give an honest review of this television's performance, but until then - nil point!