HDTV Reviews

Given how many HDMI-equipped sources could be vying for your attention over the next 12 months, we reckon pretty much every TV coming out now should have at least two HDMIs. But you’d be surprised how few do, so well done to Toshiba for managing it – especially on such an affordable TV.

The 37WL66 proudly wears the AV world’s HD Ready badge, and so it’s no surprise to find the HDMI jacks joined by a component video input for analogue HD sources like the Xbox 360. Elsewhere, meanwhile, there’s a PC socket so you can double the TV up as a computer monitor, and a pair of SCARTs.

We have to say we’d have liked a third SCART, especially as the set unusually doesn’t provide a 4-pin S-Video input. But those two HDMIs are pretty good compensation.

As you’d expect of an affordable LCD TV with an HD Ready badge, the 37WL66 boasts an HD-friendly native pixel resolution of 1,366 x 768, with other key specifications including very credible measurements of 500cd/m2 for brightness and 1000:1 for contrast ratio. Let’s just hope these measurements are less ‘fanciful’ than those of one or two rival brands we can think of…

This Toshiba lacks a digital tuner and doesn’t have the greatest sound. But if you’re just after 37in of exceptional picture quality as cheaply as possible, the 37WL66 will do nicely.
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