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We have collected 2 reviews of the Toshiba 46TL868B. Experts rate Toshiba 46TL868B 7/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Toshiba 46TL868B and Toshiba LCD TV.
Few TV brands have had as busy a 12 months as Toshiba. Not content with launching its biggest television range for years last April, Toshiba even managed to squeeze in a 'round two' of telly launches right at the end of 2011. And heading up this second raft of TVs is the TL868 series, as represented here by the 46-inch Toshiba 46TL868B.Toshiba has got very clever in recent years at figuring out ways of offering sought-after features for cheaper prices than any other mainstream brands. The 46TL868B fits into this trend perfectly, managing to deliver Full HD active 3D, Edge LED lighting and an astoundingly slender form wrapped around the large 46-inch screen all for under £700 - the sort of money you'd normally expect to spend on a fairly bog-standard 42-inch TV.Chuck a Freeview HD tuner into the mix, and there's a very good chance indeed that undecided TV buyers wandering around their local electronics store will have their attention and ultimately cash grabbed by Toshiba's almost shameless attempt to, um, give punters exactly what they want. But is the Toshiba 46TL868B really the bargain it first appears? You don't get any free 3D glasses with it, after all. And there have been a number of Edge LED TVs from Toshiba this year that have suffered with some pretty serious picture flaws.
The 46-inch 46TL868B sits towards the middle of Toshiba's line-up of LED TVs and includes active shutter 3D technology, as well as Toshiba's Places Internet TV platform. You can pick it up for around £730, which is quite cheap for a TV in this class. If you buy it before Christmas from participating retailers, you can also get a free Toshiba Blu-ray player and one year's subscription to LoveFilm. Rather than using the new, twin-circle design that Toshiba employs for the menu system on its higher-end models, this set sports the older, flatter-style menus. They appear in a black box that's overlaid on the current video source. There are a series of tabs across the top with icons to represent their functions, such as picture, sound, tuning and set-up controls. As you select each of these, the rest of the space in the box is taken up with the various settings associated with each option. The black and white presentation isn't exactly a feast for the eyes and it's a long way from the user-friendliness of LG's menus. But they're quick to navigate and most of the features that you'd want are included. For example, under the picture menu, you'll find full 3D colour management tools, as well as settings for the Active Vision processing, noise reduction and backlight control. The menus aren't exactly inspiring to look at.