Product Description

Toshiba once again sets the standards for color television excitement and performance. From the largest projection TVs, to compact portables, you can count on Toshiba to dazzle you with the utmost in picture quality, audio enhancements, and easy-to-use convenience.Innovation, advanced technology, and convenience are built into each Toshiba color television. Toshiba brings you technology that is sure to arouse the senses.PRODUCT FEATURES:CableClear Optimal Digital Video Noise Reduction analyses multiple video frames, determines the amount of noise present, and applies the correct amount of noise reduction, resulting in crisp, clear pictures.Dual Tuner Multi-Window (9) Picture Outside Picture (POP) offers two built-in tuners that can display two pictures of equal size, side by side, or up to nine windows all at once.ShortWing Advanced Lens Technology, exclusive to Toshiba, creates an extremely accurate beam spot for stunning HD picture quality.3: 2 Pulldown Detection and Compensation creates proper reconstruction of film-based (24 fps) content on video, and eliminates artefacts and jagged edges caused by improper processing.A Wide Band Video Amplifier ensures accurate reproduction of high-resolution signals, such as progressive scan DVD and 1080i HDTV content.TouchFocus Auto Convergence System restores the pre-set factory convergence for more accurate pictures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55339 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Toshiba
• Model: 51H83
• Dimensions: 50.40" h x 47.00" w x 22.40" l, 199.00 pounds
• Display size: 51

Features

• 51-inch widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) HD-compatible projection television; 49.6 x 50.5 x 22.5 inches (W x H x D)
• CrystalScan HDSC upconverts all video signals (including 480i/p) to 1080i HD
• Improved PowerFocus HD II CRTs enhance sharpness and brightness
• HD Window dual-tuner POP (picture-outside-picture), PIP audio, direct video input selection
• HD Dynamic Contrast analyzes picture information to sharpen and deepens those parts with the most detailed information

Amazon.com Product Description
Note: Toshiba 51H83 51" HDTV-Ready TheaterWide Projection TV is no longer being manufactured. You may want to consider purchasing the newer Toshiba 51H84 51" HD-Ready Rear-Projection TV with HDMI Input instead.

Blazing forth with its huge screen, high style, and bountiful high-tech features, Toshiba's 51H83 TheaterWide HDTV projection monitor is set to render vivid, smooth, and detailed video signals from DVD players, digital TV set-top boxes, digital satellite systems, cable television boxes--you name it. The set's TruView feature combines several enhancements (black level expansion, fine white, flesh tone correction, and color detail enhancer) to automatically display accurate picture and color details. Also automated, HD Dynamic Contrast continually analyzes picture information and sharpens and deepens those parts of the picture with the most detailed information.

And since not everything you watch will be high-definition in origin (wouldn't that be nice), CrystalScan HDSC upconverts all video signals (including 480i/p) to 1080i HD. This significantly reduces jagged-line artifacts for a smoother, more natural image. (Selectable 540p, for those who want a progressive-scan image from a progressive-scan source, is available through the onscreen menu.) CableClear DNR+ Digital Noise Reduction circuitry optimizes poor NTSC signals from antenna or cable by eliminating video noise (snow).

Meanwhile, DFine high-speed velocity-scan modulation improves the definition at picture edges, creating sharper images by slowing the CRT (cathode-ray tube) beam's horizontal scanning during demanding work--say, when rendering transitions from light to dark parts of an image--and speeding it up when scanning easily rendered sections, like broad dark areas.

A 3D Y/C (4 MB, 10-bit) digital comb filter with Vertical Contour Correction processes RF and composite-video signals for a sharp, clean picture. This advanced filter significantly reduces detail noise, seen as shimmering or flicker, in complex or intricate scenes. The TouchFocus digital convergence system creates perfect corner-to-corner focus at the press of a button.

Cinema Mode (3:2 pulldown) circuitry identifies film-based content from DVDs and reassembles the frame sequence to more accurately reproduce a movie's original 24-frame rate. This process eliminates artifacts and gives you sharp, accurate full-frame progressive images.

Finally, the set's TheaterFine HD super fine-pitch screen uses a 0.52 mm design to reduce the space between lines on the lenticular screen, thereby sharpening the image. With convenient direct video input selection, you can choose specific inputs right from the remote's numbered keypad--no more scrolling through all the inputs to find the one you want.

The 51H83 is loaded with connections of all stripes, including a DVI HDTV input, which gives you a pure, uncompressed video connection with your DTV receiver or set-top box (not included).

For audio, the 20-watts-per-channel 51H83 offers SRS WOW, combining SRS 3D (which creates a wide three-dimensional sound field), TruBass (which boosts bass frequency perception for dramatic low-frequency effects), and Focus (which raises the perceived sound image vertically to clarify voices) to greatly enhance your home-theater sound. StableSound maintains television volume within a preset range regardless of the source signal, and Toshiba's Sub Bass System (SBS) boosts a program's low-end audio for heightened dramatic impact.

The supplied illuminated universal remote also controls most manufacturers' VCRs and DVD players.

What's in the Box
TV, cabinet, remote control, batteries, user's manual, and warranty information.

Customer Reviews

14000 hrs and still going!!!!!
Wow the guy in the last review was an idiot to say the least. Rex stores are a dodgy company however. They have like a 2 week return policy and after that it is only store credit. But who cares now they are no longer in business in my area. The 2 stores that were here are closed. Anyway, Not that anybody will read this now that this tv is obsolete but this is a great tv with great sound and picture. It has served me well for over 14000 hrs now with no end in site. I HOPE!!! Buy one if you can still get one.

excellent quality, superior value
Back when I purchased this TV, I installed and repaired home theater systems and home electronics. I currently work in the TV industry in Hollywood. I know my TVs. I know picture quality.

After EXTENSIVE research on HDTVs and widescreen projection televisions, I bought the Toshiba 51H83. Just do yourself a favor and visit a local electronics store and see for yourself: the picture quality is crisp and vibrant and it stands out head and shoulders above all other rear-projection TVs. While most rear-projection TVs tend to be dark and difficult to watch from angles not directly in front of the TV, Toshiba's proprietary technology is much more forgiving and provides a more immersive experience.
Also, the sound quality of the speakers is fantastic. They have great depth and range (something uncommon with most TVs) thank to SRS WOW, which makes a mere 20-watts-per-channel over achieve. I own a 700-watt surround sound system that I now combine with the TV's excellent speakers, thanks to the ability of the TV to use its speakers as the center channel when in surround sound mode.

And it, of course, has all the features you would come to expect from a high-end TV (PIP, etc.).

I reserved writing a review until I used it for some time, and after almost a year, I'm as in love with it as I was the first day I bought it.

Disregard the reviewer who gave it one star, the television comes completely assembled, unless, of course, you buy from the same guy that sells cigarettes from his trunk.

WOW!
We just received this TV from Amazon today. It is incredible!