Toshiba 19LV505 HDTV

Toshiba’s 19LV505 delivers the ultimate in convenience by combining a TheaterWide 19-inch LCD widescreen display with a slot-loading DVD player and a NTSC/ATSC/QAM HDTV digital tuner for analog, over-the-air digital, and in-the-clear digital cable reception.

No more worrying about hooking up your DVD player and making room for a TV plus other components. At only 2.64-inch deep and 8.15 inches with stand, the 19LV505 takes up very little space, yet provides superb funtionality and a stunning picture; and the HDMI input further expands its capabilities.

The 16:9 TFT active matrix display is perfect for viewing high definition and standard television signals plus DVD movies. There are built-in titanium stereo speakers, so there’s no need to plug in to your home audio system; but if you want to connect this TV to your home theater, a coaxial digital audio output will supply multichannel sound.

And, of course, with a full range of connections (component video, S-Video, composite video), you can hook up a variety of components; but it’s capable of a superb performance all by itself. There’s even an analog PC input, so you can connect directly to your computer.

The 19LV505′s built-in DVD player handles DVD-Video, CD, VCD, DVD-R/RW, and CD-R/RW discs. It’s also DivX Certified so you can play all DivX video versions, including DivX 6, downloaded from the Internet to a personal computer and stored on a CD-R/RW.

It even plays WMA and MP3 files burned to CD-R/RW media. The built-in JPEG viewer allows you to display digital photographs on the LCD screen. Just load a CD with your favorite photographs and create a custom slide show simply using the included remote control.

Cinema Mode delivers the smoothest, most film-like images to the screen and ensures maximum resolution. High quality digital-to-analog A/V converters and a 3-line digital comb filter also help keep images looking their best.

Toshiba also packed the 19LV505 with other convenient features like a multi-language on-screen display, headphone output, and VESA-compliant mounting holes with 100mm pattern.

Digital Picture Zoom allows you to select an area of the DVD picture you want to zoom in on and magnify it. Enhanced digital processing during moving video or freeze-frame playback produces superior color fidelity and resolution, even when you’re zoomed in. Fast scan and slow motion help DVD navigation; and the 19LV505 features multi-camera angle select, multi-subtitle select, and an on/off timer.

Toshiba’s TheaterWide modes are ideal for displaying HDTV input as well as for DVDs enhanced for widescreen television. TheaterWide 1 produces a letterboxed image digitally expanded 33 percent horizontally and vertically, useful for reproducing Academy Standard (1.85:1) formatted software.

TheaterWide 2 produces a letterboxed image expanded 33 percent horizontally and 42 percent vertically. This is particularly useful for viewing narrow letterboxed images originally filmed in Panavision or CinemaScope. And TheaterWide 3 produces a letterboxed image expanded 33 percent horizontally and 24 percent vertically, useful when displaying letterboxed images that incorporate narrow bands at the top and bottom of the picture.

HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) is the next generation of digital input and includes the digital video signal, as well as the digital audio signal, for convenient, uncompressed, single wire connection of home theater components to the television.

The ColorStream HD component video inputs are capable of receiving 480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i signals, providing another way to get the best video signals. You can also hook up components through the 19LV505′s S-Video or composite video connections.

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