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★★★★★
Best bang for your buck.
I was leary of purchasing another Toshiba Fire TV. My 2019 model barely made it 2 years before having issues with backlighting with negative green flashes. (The work around for that is to set the backlighting to 65 and it went away... Any higher and it is dying.)
I wasn't certain about the quality. I will update this once I have more data. This is day one of purchase and this is more the initial thoughts.
This TV was rather easy to setup. I use it with my Yamaha receiver and a Google Chromecast with Google TV. HDMI1 is the Chromecast, HDMI2 is my receiver output for settings menus, and HDMI 3 is for my antique Spectrum DVR. The audio out through optical audio out.
As with my old one, in order to get the best sound quality, I turn of the set speakers and turn off all the TV sound modifying settings. They only work for the TV speakers and you don't need them.
Don't get me wrong. The TV's speakers are nice, clear, and loud. I just love quality from my receiver much more than any set speakers or a sound bar.
I do have specific video quality settings that I work on for my TVs. Those are just personal preference. I disable any filtering or processing besides the one that upconverts lower than 1080 resolution and it works really well. Put on one of Spectrum's analogue channels and it sharpened the image up and stretched it better.
I can get better picture quality than this TV and the price is around twice as much and with a bezelless design, neutral front, and works with my equipmen, I am happy with this Toshiba.
There's the caveat of this review being right after release. I will be updating this review if there is any issues.
So far it is working great. The problem I have is that the set is so new, Logitech hasn't updated their Harmony Hub to work proper. I was having to manually train buttons and half wouldn't work properly.
That's just the pain of buying early.
My early impressions are that it's a great, cheap, television for those on a budget or to stick in a playroom for kids. So far, I can say, that it's a good TV.
June 2021 · Electronics · verified purchase