By CNET.co.uk staff
15/03/2007
URL: http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/home_av/tvs/0,39037594,61996495,00.htm

	C for contrast? Get up to 5,000:1 performance with these new models.

As we hurtle toward CeBIT 2007, Europe's biggest tech trade show, we're starting to get excited about what we might see there. No doubt there will be huge televisions and, fingers crossed, some exciting new technology.

To feed our hunger, Toshiba has dropped us a tasty morsel of information on its upcoming Regza C series, which we guess will replace its successful WLT66 models. The new models will be in four sizes: 26, 32, 37 and 42 inches. All of them are 720p screens, with 1,366 x 768-pixel resolutions, which is fine, but we would have liked 1080p on the 37- and 42-inch panels.

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The screens' most significant boast is greatly improved contrast ratios, most impressive of which is the 37-inch which features a whopping 5,000:1 ratio. The 42- and 32-inch displays both have a 4,000:1 ratio and the 26-inch offers a slightly lower 3,500:1. By contrast the 32WLT66 offers a comparatively bland 1,200:1.

Our general excitement has been somewhat tempered by news that the panels will have only two HDMI inputs. We can easily fill two up with our high-definition TV service and our HD-DVD player. What happens when the PlayStation 3 reaches critical mass? We'll have to crawl around behind the TV and do some unplugging and stuff. Very disappointing, indeed.

Back in the land of the positive, the TVs all have built-in digital tuner, WXGA support for your PC, SRS WOW for making your eardrums tingle with happiness, and the usual range of picture enhancements and noise-reduction wizardry.

We've been impressed with the performance of previous Regzas, so we'll be waiting with bated breath for these to arrive.

This story appeared originally in Crave UK.