The majority of the buttons feature a decent amount of travel, but the plastic arrow keys can be prone to fingerprints. Remember to unpair or switch off any other connected audio device before trying to connect a new Bluetooth product. If you are aware of a number of channels that are not being received it is likely that the aerial is not receiving strong enough signals to allow reception of these channels.

To make matters worse, turn the volume anywhere above 50% and you’ll be met with some bad distortion. The colour performance in SDR (standard definition range) displays natural colours, consistent with other Toshiba TVs I’ve tested, with a nice punch to colours in Pacific Rim on Blu-ray. Even better, Toshiba has managed to back up the 50UK3163DB’s surprisingly rich feature count with an impressively aggressive performance that leaves many budget rivals looking boring by comparison, even if it's not going to trouble the most premium sets in our list of the best TVs.John Archer has been testing TVs and AV gear for over 25 years, having worked on Home Cinema Choice magazine. one day youll be watching your high def sunday afternoon football, or playing halo 3 on your 360, and notice the ghosting/image blur.

They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. The build quality is relatively simple, if clearly cheap – the casing is a black plastic that hugs the screen with a thick bezel. That said, neither Disney+ nor Apple TV were available at the time of writing, with the former being a significant miss. The premise is similar to Dolby Atmos in that it creates a hemisphere of sound that’s more lifelike and natural in its presentation.Good-quality native 4K sources, especially 4K Blu-rays, look much richer in texture, clarity and depth than HD images do, despite the 50-inch screen being fairly small by today’s 4K standards. Check the owners thread for the S3000 - large numbers of happy owners some of which have been very nit picky members of this forum. The construction of the chassis is noticeably plastic, and just as noticeable is the chunky bezel that stripes the screen. Its elegant black stand doesn’t draw undue attention to itself, and sits under the screen’s central section so that it’s easy to fit the TV onto even quite narrow pieces of furniture. USB Record is available on certain Toshiba models – check the Specification section of the relevant model for further information.

He's a contributor to Forbes, TechRadar, Trusted Reviews, Wired and many more places – if you've owned a TV in the last couple of decades, John's probably reviewed it somewhere.However, If I choose to go with a 32'', I will definitely go with the Panasonic TC32LX700 (It was already decided). The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. They specs are very similar but, I wanna know if anyone have experienced problems with one of those or have heard bad things about them. The two down-firing speakers fail to properly capture the thud of a bear’s paw hitting the ground, the higher-pitched smashing of glass or the sudden rush of a gun shot, with bass performance similarly disappointing.

So, for instance, you become impressively aware of the light gleaming off individual drops of rain during HDR footage of torrential rainfall, or of sunlight catching the corners and curves of car bodywork. Bass is only middling in terms of both the depth and impact it achieves, and the sound can start to collapse in on itself, becoming muddy and harsh, if you push the volume too high. The sound also projects forward and sideways from the screen quite effectively, avoiding that feeling so often heard with built-in TV audio systems that sound only seems to exist behind the screen. There’s also Alexa, built-in to the bezel of the TV, that can be used to navigate the TV or to ask questions and conjure up information, as you would with an Echo smart speaker.The UI is serviceable, neatly laid out into rows of features and supporting a decent number of apps including those that fall under the umbrella of Freeview Play such as BBC iPlayer and All 4; with BritBox, TikTok, Twitch, YouTube and Deezer onboard too. Nonetheless, we’re still a million miles away with the 50UK3163DB from the sort of deep, rich black colours we’ve come to associate with premium LCD or, especially, the best OLED TVs. we have had no problems or "green push" that apparently has plagued some who have bought the larger 47 and 52 inch sets in that series.