While Toshiba's 26AV615DB isn't perfect, it's certainly very encouraging. Some impressive aspects of its performance clearly suggest that some of the key areas of picture improvement currently making their presence felt in many of 2009's large LCD screens are filtering down to the smaller, cheaper end of the market, too.
In fact, if you're after an affordable 26in TV, 26AV615DB simply screams to be added to your shortlist. However, there is just one odd little thing to bear in mind before you rush out to buy one; namely that according to our own price hunts, you can actually get the 32in version of this TV for less money than this 26in model. Weird!Read full review
I have owned this TV for a couple of months now and find it to be a bit of a mixed bag. Firstly the good. I use this as a bedroom TV to replace a 4 year old 23 inch Philips LCD TV. The picture is a great improvement. Contrast is better, colours richer. In particular white is whiter (With the Philips whites often had a red/pink tinge). HD pictures are nice, but you really need to see them on a larger TV to get the full benefit. There are also plenty of connection options with 3 HDMI sockets, VGA, component etc. However I have found the sound to be appalling, almost no bass or treble (The Philips which it replaced which I still use elsewhere is considerably better for sound). Even the bass boost and treble controls don't help much. I have to use external speakers. Also, the EPG is very poor. You can only view one channel at a time, and as soon as you scroll to another channel, the TV immediately switches to that channel when you often only want to read the guide for it. I have used several EPGs and this is one of the poorest. The EPG is less of a problem for me as I use the TV with a 'Humax Freesat HDR' which has a good EPG and with a good pair of external speakers the TV is acceptable but I would have expected more from a TV from a respected manufacturer like Toshiba.
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