Toshiba 52-inch 52LX177 LCD HDTV Review

Toshiba 52-inch 52LX177 LCD HDTV is packed with cutting-edge technology and produces an impressive picture. Besides it comes with sleek styling, Ethernet connectivity for limited home networking, reproduces a deep level of black for an LCD, includes solid uniformity across screen, ample connectivity including three HDMI and one PC input and with numerous picture controls. Toshiba’s LX177 series includes two smaller sizes, the 42-inch 42LX177 and the 46-inch 46LX177, along with a larger 57-inch version, model 57LX177. All four members of the series are virtually identical but for size, and the other three sets perform similarly to this one. So lets review the product to know it better.

• Highest Quality HDTV Sources: The Toshiba 52LX177 is perhaps the best-featured LCD available today as it has a native resolution of 1080p, so its 1,920×1,080 pixels can resolve every detail of today’s highest-quality HDTV sources. All non-1080-resolution sources, from standard TV to DVD to 720p HDTV, are scaled to fit the pixel array.
• 120Hz technology: It can refresh its image twice as fast as standard HDTVs, which should cut down on motion blur sometimes seen during fast motion with standard, 60Hz flat-panel LCDs. To convert the standard 60Hz source to 120Hz, the set uses a process called Motion Vector Frame Interpolation, which creates a new frame using information from the two adjacent frames. Toshiba claims this method is superior to other 120Hz processing methods.
• HDMI 1.3 format: The 52LX177 can also take advantage of a few features associated with the HDMI 1.3 format, namely the xvYCC color space, Deep Color, and Lip-Sync Latency. All three of these features require an HDMI 1.3-compatible source playing a disc or other content encoded with these features.
• Picture Modes: There are four preset picture modes that cannot be adjusted and doing so causes the mode to switch automatically to the Preference mode, which saves changes independently for each input. It automatically erases the changes you had previously entered in Preference, there are a couple of ways to avoid losing your settings. One way can be using one of the two Pro modes, which are also independent per input, to save your picture settings. Second, you can use the novel TheaterLock function to gray out most of the options in the Pro1, Pro2, and Preference modes which become an outstanding way to guard your hard-tweaked settings against inadvertent erasure.
• Ethernet connection: Through a rear-panel Ethernet connection, the feature allows the 52LX177 to display digital photos and play digital music that is stored on another computer on the network
• Design: Toshiba clad the 52LX177 entirely in black, from the somewhat thick, glossy black frame surrounding the picture to the very large, stretched-out U-shaped black stand. The speakers are discreetly hidden along the bottom edge of the frame and angled downward. The large gigantic remote is also worth mention.
• Performance: The picture quality of the Toshiba 52LX177 is among the best tested from flat-panel LCD TVs this year, with options for video processing, and the set producing a relatively deep black.

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