Product Description

Toshiba 23HLV87 23" LCD HDTV and DVD Combo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25271 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: Black
• Brand: Toshiba
• Model: 23HLV87
• Dimensions: 19.10" h x 23.60" w x 8.60" l, 32.49 pounds
• Display size: 23

Features

• 23-inch widescreen HDTV (16 - 10 Aspect Ratio)
• Built-in digital ATSC and analog NTSC tuners for current and next generation TV
• Built-in QAM cable TV tuner
• 1440 x 900 pixel resolution for 480i/480p/720p/1080i display capabilities
• Digital comb filter

Amazon.com Product Description
Now you can play your entertainment library on one versatile machine. Since the 23HLV87 has both a DVD player and a 23-inch screen, you won't have to worry about connecting different electronic components in order to watch your favorite program. This convenience is matched only by its smart, stylish design.

The Value of LCD TVs
Aside from their obvious aesthetic value, LCD TVs are much more practical in the home than CRT (tube-style) televisions. They take up a smaller footprint, and thus use up less floor space in the room. Also, LCD TVs are lighter and easier to move around when cleaning or redecorating.

This screen also has a pixel resolution of 1440 x 900 -- which qualifies it to display 720p HDTV images. A built-in comb filter reduces digital artifacts produced by signal noise, making for more detailed images.

Full-Featured DVD Player
The 23HLV87 includes an integrated DVD player compatible with several disc formats: DVD Video, CD-R, CD-RW, VCD and DVD-R. This player is also DivX home theater certified, which means it display popular Internet video formats, such as DivX, AVI, and MPEG4. Similarly, MP3 and WMA-encoded music files recorded to disc will play nicely.

An interesting feature of this player is Digital Picture Zoom, which allows you to select and magnify an area of either freeze-frame or motion video.

Connections
The set has a built-in digital television tuner, so out of the box it can receive digital broadcast ATSC signals and QAM signals used by most digital cable providers. It also has a built-in 181-channel NTSC tuner, so it can also accept traditional analog signals. It is also capable of the following connections:

• HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface): 1
• ColorStream HD component video inputs: 1
• S-video: 1
• RF: 1
• PC input: D-sub 15 with L/R audio
• Digital audio out: 1 optical
• Headphone jack: 1
• RCA video inputs: 2 rear

Audio
The 23HLV87's bottom-mount speakers deliver stereo sound, but for those with a 5.1 surround sound system, the 23HLV87 outputs Dolby Digital and dts digital audio from the DVD player through an optical port. A front headphone jack allows you to watch TV without disturbing those around you--perfect for late-night viewing. Toshiba's StableSound feature maintains television volume within a preset range regardless of the source signal. This is an extremely useful feature when transitioning between a quiet television program and a very loud commercial advertisement or when changing channels.

What's in the Box
23HLV87 23-inch LCD HDTV and DVD Combo, unified remote control, VESA mounting holes, product manual

Customer Reviews

Off-angle view looking up is TERRIBLE!
UPDATE: Returned this TV and bought a Toshiba Regza 26" LCD TV/DVD combination (26LV67)...MUCH BETTER!
The Regza has good viewing at all off-angles (including looking up) and has an upconverting DVD player (the 23HLV87 does not). Paid only 'bout $150 more for the Regza 26" and got a better picture & upconverting DVD player-well worth the difference in my book!
ORIGINAL REVIEW
This isn't a bad TV, but be forewarned-the off-angle viewing when looking UP is terrible (looks like a photographic negative). I checked off-angle viewing from the sides in a showroom, but didn't think `bout lying in the floor to check the view looking up! I mistakenly assumed if it looked good from the sides, it would look the same from all angles-it doesn't!
I put this TV in my home office directly above my computer monitor, sitting on a corner unit. The 23HLV87 I had tilted it's max (5 degrees) and still had a couple of mouse pads to get more forward tilt and it still looks terrible looking up. The Regza doesn't tilt forward on it's stand as the 23HLV87 does, but it looks great when looking up even with no forward tilt.
After my experience with this TV, playing around in the showrooms it appears many LCDs smaller than 26" suffer the same (upward) off-angle viewing problem as this Toshiba. Apparently many manufacturers are putting newer/better LCDs in their 26" units.

Good, but some quirks
I got this to replace the 19" conventional TV in our bedroom. The built in DVD player saves a lot of space. Over-the-air reception with a basic indoor antenna is pretty good, although programming the set of channels to receive was non-intuitive: it seemed like the list of channels was spontaneously changing. There is a signal strength display for digital channels, but it takes a lot of button presses to reach, changing the channel turns it off, and the value doesn't update, so finding the best antenna placement is more difficult than it could be.
The DVD player plays DivX DVDs, so now I can play downloaded videos somewhere other than my PC.

I would give "0" stars if I could!
I bought the first unit in August 2007. It worked fine for a few weeks then decided to quit (just went blank!). I called Toshiba and was referred to an authorized service dealer. The unit stayed at the service center for 1 month waiting for circuit boards that never came because they were not available from Toshiba (A relatively recently produced unit and Toshiba does not even have replacement parts: that tells you something!). Finally Toshiba agreed to replace the unit and I received my current TV 1 month later. Now the DVD does not work properly and keeps on pixelating and skipping (I cleaned and played multiple DVDs but the problem persisted). I called Toshiba and insisted that I need a replacement for my replacement. They could not care less. All they were willing to do was to send me back to the service center.
This is the last Toshiba product I will buy.