With smart design and rich data functions, Toshiba apparently wants to trim the TV towards the multimedia terminal.
Fine tune
Toshiba's design also focuses on the combination of piano lacquer and plexiglass. The transparent border around the screen, which seamlessly merges with the frame, makes a good figure. Although he is not the narrowest candidate in the test, the latest VL-series television has a dainty effect.
Picture gallery
Technically speaking, he brings along pretty much everything a modern LED TV has to offer, and a little more. So he has the only test candidate a built-in SDHC memory card slot. Nevertheless, the technicians additionally have a network interface and two USB jacks implanted. One of the USB sockets is reserved for the included WLAN stick, which enables Toshiba to log into a wireless network.
Going to the network
Recommended viewing distance [at least]
Please connect
Despite the numerous data accesses, the number of functions is limited. As an Internet application, the TV only brings access to the video portal YouTube. Apparently the developers put more emphasis on the interaction of the components in the domestic network. For example, it works as a DLNAClient with up to eight DLNA servers on the home network, which wake up from the TV even from standby mode ("Wake on LAN")
He also works as a "Digital Media Renderer". It can be controlled by so-called "digital media controllers". In the menu, the data freak can be set, which controller can control the Toshiba. Up to eight controllers can be entered in the image menu.
As a controller, notebooks with the appropriate software such as Windows 7, "Toshiba Media Controller", mobile phones or even cameras are possible. Toshiba's new Toshiba TVs were the first to receive the "Compatible to Windows 7" logo.
As a "digital media player" the Toshiba behaves quite sluggishly. He works much more quickly when it comes to photographs or pieces of music. Data stored on the USB stick can also be processed quickly. Something incomprehensible is why he only reads DivX files via USB stick and displays only MPEG data via the network. He also struggled with various HD test files.
Optimal settings
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In terms of the variety of video inputs, the LED television is in no way inferior to its data counterparts. With a total of four HDMI jacks, it is fully up-to-date. This should allow all player combinations.
With the HDMI-CEC variant Regza-Link, the Toshiba plays well with other peripherals. So he was in the praxistest faultlessly with the PlayStation 3 Slim, which could be controlled by the Toshiba remote control correctly. In addition, its HDMI jacks with "Instaport" offer a faster switching of the inputs. This shortens the time of the input change to about half.
Also in the analog world is the Toshiba at home. With two scart jacks, even older players can be operated. The subwoofer output tried and tested with Toshiba TVs also supports the new VL model to support the low-breaker loudspeakers. All you need is an active subwoofer, which can go unnoticed in the room. This saves an adult AV system as required.
Self-service
Toshiba dared not experiment with the operation. The simple picture menu is however somewhat textual. Pictograms, if available, are not always recognizable.
Something unclear is also the EPG: The engineers have tried to accommodate 13 stations and two hours of broadcasting time. The result: compressed, badly read fonts.
Media Spectacle - DLNA for Advanced Users
On the other hand, the genre presentation is nicely solved. In this case, the viewer can search for his desired broadcasts as desired.
The remote control leaves a bit old-fashioned impression. It contains too many uniform keys, which can hardly be identified in the dark.
In the tone test, the Japanese cut off quite neatly. Although he also emphasizes the mids too much as his competitors. Overall, however, it sounds passable.
Toshiba successfully passed the image test, although its analogue tuner provided a useful result only with a tightly set noise reduction.
With clearly more sharpness and fewer image errors, he showed digital tuner pictures on the screen. The circuit "Resolution +" provided for more detail, but also for double contours at vertical edges. Only the sharpening regulator could help.
With filmed images in HD and in the 24p format went on: There the Toshiba showed pictures with good depth effect, due to the good contrast. The function "film stabilization" could not eradicate Ruckler, but the picture was not synonymous. Freaks will welcome the adjustable brightness sensor, which optimally adapts the image to the surrounding conditions.
The Toshiba mastered as a client, like every TV in the test, the "Digital Media Player" function. The viewer will search for a file on the "Digital Media Server" on the network, which is displayed on request. In addition, the TV works as a "Digital Media Renderer."
Advantage: A notebook, a digital camera or a mobile phone in the network can send a file directly to the TV, which it plays immediately.
Toshiba 46VL 733, $ 1,600
TV: 3.4 m, PAL DVD: 2.7 m, HD: 1.8 m
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