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This midsized big-screen set offers most of the features and all of the quality of Toshiba's larger projection sets. With screen dimensions optimized for your favorite widescreen movies, the HD-ready 42H83 produces smooth and detailed images from DVD players, digital TV set-top boxes, digital satellite systems, cable television boxes--you name it. Heading its great features is IDSC Pro, a digital scan-conversion system that accepts and displays both progressive-scan and interlaced HD (1080i) video signals. IDSC Pro uses line doubling, frame doubling, pixel doubling, and double sampling for the best possible progressive-scan images. The 42H83 uses a TheaterBright screen, whose double lenticular (two-lens) configuration combines a Fresnel and fine, 0.72 mm pitch Blackstripe screen. The screen is tinted for increased contrast, and a surface layer diffuser concentrates the tinting on a thinner layer of the screen's surface, giving you a bright, high-resolution screen with a wide, 160-degree viewing angle. Dual-tuner, 9 MultiWindow, split-screen PIP gives you picture-in-picture without requiring a VCR for a second tuner. Scan through all stations on nine boxes across the bottom of the screen--you can even preset your favorite channels in the boxes. The split-screen feature shows two channels simultaneously without distorting either image. Toshiba's TruView enhancement suite combines black-level expansion, fine white, flesh-tone correction, and color detail enhancer, automatically reproducing accurate pictures with true colors. A 3D Y/C (4 MB, 10-bit) digital comb filter with Vertical Contour Correction provides accurate processing of RF and composite-video signals for a sharp, clean picture. This high-end filter significantly reduces detail noise, seen as shimmering or flickering, in complex or intricately detailed scenes. CableClear digital noise-reduction circuitry optimizes poor NTSC signals from antenna or cable. The set's DVI-HDTV input allows a direct digital connection with a DTV set-top box or receiver, while dual ColorStream HD component-video inputs provide the ultimate picture quality from high-definition analog component-video signals (as from DTV receivers, satellite receivers, and progressive-scan DVD players). DFine high-speed velocity-scan modulation improves contrast and overall picture sharpness by changing the speed of the electron beam as it transitions between bright and dark areas of the picture. HD Dynamic Contrast continually analyzes picture information and sharpens and deepens those parts of the picture with the most detailed information. Cinema Mode (3:2 pulldown switch) identifies original film-based content from DVDs, then reassembles the frame sequence to more accurately reproduce a film's original 24-frame-per-second material, obviating distortions caused by DVD's 30 fps rate. Further, the TouchFocus automatic digital convergence system creates perfect corner-to-corner focus at the press of a button. Manual override adjustments are available. For audio, the 42H83 offers SRS WOW, combining SRS 3D (which creates a wide, three-dimensional sound field), TruBass (which boosts bass-frequency perception for more dramatic low-frequency effects), and Focus (which raises the sound image vertically to create clearer voices)--enhancing sound quality through the set's own two speakers (which are powered by 15 watts per channel). StableSound maintains television volume within a preset range regardless of the source signal, and Toshiba's Sub Bass System (SBS) boosts a program's actual low-end audio for heightened dramatic impact. What's in the Box
TV, illuminated universal remote control, remote batteries, user's manual, QuickConnect guide, and warranty information. |
