Toshiba 26" LCD TheaterWide HDTV

Provided by Beach Audio

The sleekly styled 26-inch Toshiba 26HLC56 HD-ready monitor features the company's latest LCD panel technology--Cinespeed--and an expanded viewing angle of 176 degrees. With no internal tuner (either standard NTSC or digital ATSC), the 26HLC56 requires an optional tuner or cable/satellite set-top box to receive standard- and high-definition television programming. It's easy to connect to brilliant imagery with the component and HDMI connections--the latter offering pure digital audio/video performance with no degradation of signal from just one convenient cable. This set also offers Toshiba's exclusive HD Dynamic Contrast function, which provides a sharper, deeper image with rich colors and a more life-like image.

It offers compatibility with all HDTV formats (480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i) and it has a 1366 x 768-pixel resolution. It also features a 16:9 aspect ratio, 500 cd/m2 (candela per square meter) brightness rating, and an exceptional 900:1 contrast ratio. (The higher the contrast ratio, the greater a TV's ability to display subtle color details and not get washed out by ambient room light.) The Cinespeed panel provides a very fast 8ms (millisecond) response time, which is great for watching fast-moving sports and action movies. Toshiba's PixelPure AT (Adaptive Technology) includes Motion Adaptive De-Interlacing, Adaptive MPEG Processing, Adaptive Contrast Enhancement, and Adaptive Color Enhancement--all critical elements to deliver a consistently high quality picture.

Convenience features include color temperature control, auto aspect ratio detection, closed captioning on mute, sleep timer, tri-lingual on-screen display, video input labeling, channel labeling, channel/video lock, and V-Chip parental controls.

The 4 MB, 10-bit digital 3D Y/C comb filter (with vertical contour correction) separates brightness and color signals better in 3D domain to eliminate cross-color, cross-luminance and dot-crawl distortion. It performs field-by-field comparisons of the television image to accurately separate the color from the black-and-white information and remove both horizontally and vertically hanging dots, as well as dot crawl, resulting in a razor sharp image. The HD Dynamic Contrast feature increases Contrast and Color Saturation to create deep, rich images, analyzing both the dark and bright areas of the picture, and separately optimizing the dynamic range in each area of the picture.

The Cinema Mode feature performs 3:2 pulldown detection and reversal, too--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture. This set also offers several TheaterWide modes that expand letterboxed images--which is particularly useful when watching narrow letterboxed Panavision or CinemaScope films.

Product Features

" Tunerless 26-inch LCD high-definition monitor; measures 27.2 x 22.8 x 12.1 inches (WxHxD) with included stand
" Requires optional receiver or cable/satellite set-top box to receive all TV programming--no built-in NTSC tuner
" Fast 8ms (millisecond) response time, 1366 x 768-panel resolution, 500 cd/m2 brightness, 900:1 contrast ratio
" Inputs: 1 composite, 1 S-Video, 1 component, 1 HDMI, 1 PC VGA, 1 RF
" Two stereo speakers, 10 watts apiece (20 watts total); SRS WOW virtual surround sound