Thanks for the update :smiley:

Should anyone wish to have this TV in 2D, print out the following image. Hey presto, a 2D TV!



P.S - I cannot guarantee this 2D model will switch on and display images other than that which it is printed with.

Are you sure it's not a microwave you have?

In a word no, you bought the best "in its day" why not search the reviews and buy the best now?
Cheapest does unfortunately not equal best.
Cheapest equals I cannot sell it so I will reduce the price

Glad it's got a SCART socket!

Nah fella... Just nonces like you.

Speaking for yourself eh fatabelly.

I can confirm that Toshiba Active Shutter Bluetooth 3D TV Glasses FPT-AG04G do work! (Thanks sandra51)
But in the 3D menu you must change the 3D settings to the right type (side by side or top bottom) and also change right/left to left/right... that last step is key! And why some people have been wearing 3D glasses upside down when there is no need to.

Looks like a decent enough TV for the money, I had reserved one, but looking deeper into the reviews I won't be picking it up, if the 3D was any good I would buy it, so will just have to keep looking. :disappointed:

I have this tv... 4k is great.. I use the netflix app on the tv.. Remote has a dedicated netflix button which is very handy.
3d is amazing i have the FPT-AG04G glasses you can get on ebay for about £13 for 2 active glasses. The glasses do work but make sure auto is on in the 3d settings, i only use 3d blurays. I have watched predator 3d, minions 3d, everest 3d and transformers 3d.. All work great although these aren't the best movies for pop out 3d, depth is amazing though especially on Everest. I use xbox one for my blurays and the tv knows when it changes to 3d and fixes the screen then you just press the button on top of the glasses and your all set.. If it looks blurry change the 3d settings from left/right to right/left.. If for any reason the 3d loses sync then it won't work and just reset the tv. There's a 2d to 3d conversion which works not bad along with the depth settings.. I've read all the reviews for this tv and its great, all hdmi ports are 1.4 which can be changed to 2.0 for 4k content just goto settings and change each port to enhanced.
Sound sucks but some moving around with the settings can make it worthy
Can't go wrong with this tv, 3d and 4k? And people are bitching about not getting the 3d glasses with it? Its a great price for everything you get including 3.0 usb.. Mkv playback.

[quote=jamierichardson129]not 3d and £479[/quot


WRONG

not 3d and £479

Gone up in price to £479 now after you add it to the basket.

stay well clear of this **** TV. took it back after about 1hr.

Loads of 3D content available on DVDs and downloaded from those sites with torrents of "bits" in them or direct from YIFY No sure if they will allow me to attach a screenshot but here goes :smirk:

I have just received 2 pairs of Toshiba Active Shutter Bluetooth 3D TV Glasses FPT-AG04G from a seller on eBay for £13.47 delivered.

They are very light and if you have young children I would keep them away from them as I do not think they would stand up to much rough handling but they seem perfectly OK to me and work well with this TV.
:smiley:

Some would argue it's corporate suicide for a (previously) respected manuacturer to allow its reputation to be tarnished by putting its badge on low-end product - this certainly applies to Panasonic which is using the same source as Tosh for its low-end TV Panachronic models.

I had no idea Toshiba weren't making all their own gear these days. But in a "cheap 'n' cheerful" economy, it must be corporate suicide to keep turning out midrange equipment at knockdown prices.

Blueray will not give you UHD, you need a Blueray UHD player and UHD disks to get that. Blueray will only give you FullHD.

my blu ray player has amazon video app though, it just has a very poor wifi signal, that tents to never connect or randomly drop off, so i thought great a smart tv with built in wifi...handy for the amazon video- the tv i replaced was a panasonic 47" freeview hd, so i feel like for £399 i gained 1" of screen and at uhd, doesn't seem like much of a bargain anymore as i still need to rely on the blu ray player for amazon video :disappointed:

They may do a firmware update at a later date that would add more apps but you could get an android box of one type or another, I bought an Amazon 4K Fire TV Box a few weeks back when they dropped to just under £65 and installed a few standalone apps on it alongside the ones that you can subscribe to if you want to and I also put KODI on it for lots of other stuff :smiley:

That's why some TV's are cheaper than others, they don't include Netflix, Amazon and what ever just the internet and as you say useless apps.
It's like buying a Dacia you don't get a rear view camera, heated seats etc..

My only gripe after receiving mine today and setting it up is that the standby/on led is too big and too bright and I wonder why it needs to be on at all when the TV is switched on as you can tell it is on because there will be a picture on the TV and being a very bright green it is a little distracting.

I have stuck some black insulation tape over 90% of it so that I can just see a small part of it when it is either in standby and showing red or is on and showing green.

Thankyou very much!

It is 63 cm wide x 22 cm deep x 6cm high

Bought this telly a few weeks ago and think it is an absolute bargain. 4k and full HD pics are great quality and only flaw I have noticed is banding is visible on the screen when panning whilst watching footie. Have plugged my stereo into the TV and with soundbar sounds great. 3D works a treat and Toshiba Active Shutter glasses bought from Amazon seem to work the right way around for me. Smart TV aspect is workmanlike but use Amazon Fire TV anyway. To sum up, great with external sources but budget panel deficiencies do show up when watching motion on full screen Freeview TV. Still great value for money though

Walsall outlet £350 even better. Im gonna wail til my 7 year old toshiba dies though before i get a new one

I took back a Philips 40PUT6400 previously bought via Hotdeals thread as was a bit buggy and locked up a few times. Also found blacks very smeary. Took all processing off and still an issue. 48 hours in with Toshiba/vestel and have to say it's a brilliant set. I've connected Chromecast 2015 to it and it's just brilliant. 4k and 1080p is brilliant. The native YouTube app supports 4k. As people have said in previously no smart tv is truly smart but Chromecast gives you upgradeability for £20-30. Pleased as punch.

Just bought one and it's perfect.

Could anyone tell me the dimensions of the stand please ?

I have been watching 4K content off YouTube earlier this evening and it is absolutely amazing. The 4K underwater clips had so much depth and detail to them that they looked like the "Under the reef Imax 3D" documentary does on my projector, even though the 4K clips are only in 2D.

I am surprised at how the SD looks acceptable on it too as I was worried that it would be as poor as the people who have probably never seen one working had said it was going to be, just because it was probably a Vestel TV and not a Samsung, or other overpriced by comparison TV. :wink:

Pick my TV up to tonight, absolutely blown away, Love it! Thank for the post op

I did think of doing that but thought that if for some reason I find something I do not like about it after a couple of days and wish to return it I can just peel the tape off and it would be back to as good as new again, I can not see the tape so it seems a good solution for now :smiley:

Wasn't talking to you gorilla.

You dumb knuckle dragger! Take your smart Alec comments & shove 'em up your anus!

I BOUGHT ONE 2 DAYS AGO AND LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why do cheap brand Vestel sets (Sanyo, JVC, Toshiba etc) all go hot on here yet Panasonic Vestels go cold? At this price this Vestel tv should be stone cold. This site is very fickle..............

I have learned. Seems OLED = big big £££££
I still none the wiser on whats best to go for. Just want a 48 inch TV, smart TV I presume as I want to watch netflix, sharp pic, lovely crisp sound, and also good for when the xbox gets plugged in now and then.

Yay! Good spot, OP! Heat added...a great tv at a good price

well, in reality I did not want to upset the plasma fan too much, but to tell you the truth it was the other way round.

It says ultra Hd on spec but it does not say 4K tv ?

We are on the sniff for a new TV. Big netflix fans, so I guess we need a smart TV for that , or am I wrong ?

I read things like "you want a TV where black is black" not sure what this means?
And "you need 3 HDMI minimum, more the merrier"
And "a tv that is 5ms or better" another one I read a lot.

So is there a TV out there, that does the above ? I guess there is, but I am scared that the answer is "Yes, and its £5000"... GULP !!

Also, LED or LCD, what the hecks the difference ? HELP

Is this 100% 3D as not stipulated in description anywhere?

makes sense, I am very tempted as my only use would be to be used with my pc but at [email protected] 4-4-4
chroma only. Surely it does not cover the 4-4-4 chroma

Every one who is interested in this tv.
Go and buy it, take it home, remove it gently do not open any bags with batteries, manuals etc.
Turn tv on, connect it to the source that you will be using it the most and see what quality of image are you getting.
Now that you had a play with it, put it back gently to the carboard box and take it back to Argos (which btw don't accept returns on TV's - been told like that when took my one back the next day, managed to convince manager that the tv is rubbish, not a Toshiba, smart is not smart etc).
And keep on looking for better quality LG or Samsung tv.

BTW any of You want to buy that tv just because it has 4k?
Any of you ever watched 4k?
Which broadcaster is offering 4k tv at the moment?
How many movies are in 4k on Netflix?
For that size is it not better to spent the same amount of money for a good quality LG , Samsung, Sony?

Anyone know whether this has HDCP 2.2 or HDR support? Might be worth waiting for both


Were you looking at a SD plasma and a HD LCD?

Very good deal.
Vestel panels are very good indeed, not rubbish as stated by others who do not own one,

I own a Digihome TV with Vestel Panel. In my opinion, the pictures are better than some of the high end TVs (note: you need to adjust the picture settings) and get excellent picture.

Heat added.

I just had a very good look at argos 4k range. They only sell the bottom rubbish from all makes as I can see, LOL.

Would this be a good replacement for my now oldish Pioneer Kuro TV?

"will probably"?!?!?

So you didn't look up or find a spec sheet? So that's just a total wild guess! For all you know, it could be massively higher than that. Pixel response and input lag are NOT directly related. And given that a 4k screen has more picture to process and render, input lag tends to be higher if anything.

Given that the best Sony 1080p LCD sets (widely recognised as about the best for gaming) tend to be in the low 20's in game mode, I would ASTONISHED if this cheapo 4k set was anywhere close to 30-40ms!

(eg. The LG 55EG960V which costs over £2k has an input lag in game mode of 49ms!)

Guessing things like this really isn't helpful ....

Anyone took one home to try yet?

HEAT on the price change Goon ;-)

>>>>>
As for the Ultra HD V Real 4K debate..



>>>>>
Love the way that when a popular deal is found and posted on
HUKD for Argos, that the number of Questions answered via
their website rockets with poorly researched or quickly found
"google" info!!! :smile:

Can anybody comment, is this good enough for gaming?

Response time - 8milliseconds...would this be good for sport and gaming just as I'm led to believe that the greater the response time greater the lag ??!!

My advice if you're on the fence would be, buy the TV with the intention of taking it back once you've had a play with it.

If you don't end up taking it back then it's a bonus!

I have always considered Toshiba to be a quality tv brand, having had a couple of their original 32" wide-screen sets back in the day. Like a lot of others, we went with Samsung when buying our first hd tv, but went back to Tosh when replacing our original (9 years old) 40" Sammy in our "good room" a while back. It is a 40" smart set we bought from Tesco.Com for £280 and the picture is mostly good with hd material. But any quibbles we have could possibly be down to our Virgin Media hd box only outputting 1080i as opposed to full HD. Overall, the quality and wealth of features seemed good for the price at the time. But now they are selling a 48", 4K, active 3D model for £399? It's gotta be a no-brainer. Have some heat OP.

No Toshiba TV's get a good review from Which or Best Buy recommendation, but I guess at this price might be a good buy.

good information

does this do proper upscaling... without that will 4k look no different to the original source?

good for gaming but not for CoD or Battlefield online games with 8 m/s lag....

Haha Toshiba, your having a giraffe!

I found a forum with details about the TV and some said these glasses worked, Toshiba FPT-AG04G. They did say that you had to flick the 3D setting though otherwise you had to wear the glasses upside.

Bought one....looks like a cracking deal. I'll be my own judge. Don't forget people tend to only leave reviews if it's negative.....I'm sure there is lots of positives about this.

Hubby just collected, does not have good apps and can't add certain apps like itv, demand 5 etc all right for the bedroom for the money

Avoid Vestel panels by all means, the manufacturers of Toshiba and Panasonic panels. Google "vestel rubbish".

If it's too good to be true, it probably is. Shell out £100-£200 more and get a LG or Samsung.

Well i never knew that.Very interesting read.thanks

Bought this tv at the end of last year.
Bought on Saturday evening, took it back sunday morning.
In my opinion its a rubbish tv.
On paper great spec.
It is that price as it is cheap tv, it is not worth even 350.
Smart tv? Yes maybe 10 years ago that one would be considered as smart tv.
3d - yes and no - no glasses provided and universal ones might not work - some are reporting that some glasse work when worn upside down.
Everything in that tv feels cheap and not up to any standard.
In my honest opinion (all above)

Is ultra HD and 4K the same thing?

I can't see anywhere on the Argos description where it mentions it is 4K

Picture quality is awesome - Full HD and 4K video(HEVC videos from hdd or usb working perfect). SD is SD, so You can watch, but looks poor. Just few good smart app, and a lot of useless. In Argos description I saw Miracast, but i don't know how to turn it on TV? Anybody know?

​oh dear...

No, not like this one. As it appears the 3D doesn't rate well or doesn't work,

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LN6ENXK/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=569136327&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B018I7111S&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=017F68MA22S7B1GEKHBS
Glasses on Amazon, the tv is £619.. voting hot

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LN6ENXK/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=569136327&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B018I7111S&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=017F68MA22S7B1GEKHBS
Glasses on Amazon, the tv is £619.. voting hot

Does anyone know of a decent 3D tv for around this price, wanted to post my own ?, but hukd posting page isn't working for me right now.

I have got a 3d tv but no clue how to use it, and the picture is terrible - not relative to the thread but voted hot.

20 left in walsall argos outlet at £350

Pioneer Kuro - the best Plasma money could buy at its time, that and the Panasonic Viera PZ800 (46" version) like I own. Still a superb picture that has black blacks and a picture to behold!!!

Great tv for the price! Voted hot!

I have an Active 3D TV and I can't be bothered watching it. Everything goes dark and the colours are dulled to the point you feel like you are missing out.

I was gonna go for this but there seems to be a big issue concerning the 3D glasses and which are compatible.

Read the user comments on this article below before deciding

http://www.product-reviews.net/2015/11/25/toshiba-48-inch-48u7653db-ultra-hd-tv-review-bewilderment/

I bought this tv for my parents just before Christmas cant fault it for the money. It is 3D BUT it does not come with 3d glasses and its an active 3D TV so the glasses are more expensive but can be had on ebay for about £15.

Grrr
Might have to decommission my Sammy Plasma :sunglasses:

Glad it's got a SCART socket!

Been confirmed by Argos

Staff Answer
Hi,

I can confirm that this TV is 3D

Thank you for using Argos Q&A

were does it say its 3d ?

Shame HOME20 is not working!

Can't see 3D mentioned in the specs, but on a review says 3D is good, can anyone see the info? Thanks

Yeah, brand name like most TVs now, but amazing reviews!

Previous posts by members for extra info Link

They're not actually made by Toshiba, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestel
But still a good price/spec combination.
Nearest I can find to any reviews
http://www.product-reviews.net/2015/11/25/toshiba-48-inch-48u7653db-ultra-hd-tv-review-bewilderment/