Toshiba 42SL417U

Toshiba's 42SL417U offers up a surprising picture quality and connected features for an affordable price. Unfortunately, it skimps on sound and some essentials to get there.

The Toshiba 46SL417U offers decent image quality, several top-tier Web features, and lots of user controls, but suffers from mediocre audio and some unfortunate design decisions--and it's not supercheap.

With all the hoopla surrounding 3D, the other big innovation in HDTVs has been largely forgotten – LED backlighting. For an image-quality geek like me though, this is a far more significant advance in technology. LCD panels can now play in the same black-level arena as plasma TVs. In some cases, they even exceed. As anyone schooled in imaging science will tell you, dynamic range is the single most important factor in perceived image quality. Let's take a look at this Toshiba 55" HDTV with edge lit LED backlighting.

The Toshiba 46SL417U offers surprising picture quality and connected features for a bargain price, but skimps on sound and other essentials to get there.

Toshiba SL417U

Toshiba's 42SL417U is a 1080p, 120Hz, internet enabled LED TV. Read reviews, compare and find the best prices and see the specifications of the Toshiba 42SL417U.

With poor color performance, a narrow viewing angle, and malfunctioning software, it was doomed from the start.

Toshiba's 42SL417U offers up a surprising picture quality and connected features for an affordable price. Unfortunately, it skimps on sound and some essentials to get there.