Toshiba - 65" Class (64.5" Diag.) - LED - 2160p - with Chromecast Built-in - 4K Ultra HD TV

I read some reviews and just wanted to give some honest feedback for those looking to buy a great tv for a great price. First, let me clear up some issues that people are having: 1) The tv defaults to google cast until you set it up and update it. Once you do that, it starts on whatever input or was last on. So set up cast on grandma's tv even if she'll never use it. 2) If you are using an antenna and it's choppy or freezing, get a better antenna. 3) If it's choppy or freezing while casting, upgrade your Internet to more bandwidth. 4) Sound is never going to be great on a thin tv. Obviously, the speakers are tiny so hook it up to any external speakers, get a sound bar, or hook it up to a real surround sound system for better sound. 5) There isn't much 4k content out there, but if you will be hooking up a bd player capable of 4k you only need hdmi 2.0 cables and it doesn't matter what brand they are. The cheaper the better. 6) This tv doesn't have ypbpr connections because that's old analog 1080i tech that is being phased out. Live in the now! 7) The remote doesn't have numbers. Who cares? If you have cable, you use the cable remote. If you have an antenna, you don't get that many channels anyway. Plus you can use toshiba's app if you really need numbers on your remote. 8) You can't view video in the media player via usb, so just cast it. Duh! 9) Someone said it didn't have wifi, it does. 10) 60hz blur is barely noticeable and only with fast action sports if you really look for it. So 99% of the time, you will not see any difference. 11) Apps are not built in so you have to use googlecast. Oh no! Now you have to use a wireless streaming technology capable of supporting 4k resolution! Poor you. 12) If you care about contrast ratios etc., and actually know what they are, why are you even looking at a $600 tv. Shame on you. For everybody else, this tv is amazing! I bought 2 as gifts for my father, and father-in-law. I would have gotten one for myself if I didn't already have a big tv in my living room and bedroom. I'm an audio/video junkie as well as a computer expert with over 10 years of experience in the industry, and I'm telling you, this is the best value currently on the market. Sound is decent, picture is great, googlecast works, it's huge, and it's dirt cheap.

The set may not be perfect, but it's really great for the price. We got a black Friday special that I couldn't turn down. Toshiba isn't the name in electronics it once was, but I was happy to see they still make a good product. The picture is just terrific and so life like, upgrading from 1080p to 4k really made a difference - I realize there is little 4k content out there and the TV is upgrading standard HD to resemble 4k, but it sure does a good job of it. I really like the Chromecast, I've been streaming YouTube on the TV and it works great. Xfinity already has Netflix available so I don't need Chromecast for that. Amazon isn't currently available, so I just stream that through my BluRay player. I guess it's not a full fledged Smart TV, but it works very well and streaming YouTube is all I need it to do now, based on my cable subscription. The remote is pretty basic, but it does all I need it to since I use the excellent Xfinity X1 remote for most things. The X1 Remote paired very easily with the new TV in seconds. Upgrading standard (non HD) programming isn't as good as HDTV as sometimes the set seems to lag when refreshing it, although it does attempt to fix the ratio and clarify the picture and does a respectable job of it. The sound is pretty average, although another reviewer recommended some setting changes that improve it. I hooked up an inexpensive sound bar that made the sound richer and louder and am perfectly happy with that. Initially the set had some quirks, it turned itself off once and the audio turned itself on at 5am three days in a week. Those things seem to have worked themselves out though. The stand is a little cumbersome and hangs over our shelf a little bit, but it hasn't actually been a problem. There is very little border around the screen, which is nice and compact for such a large TV. It has 3 HDMI connections as well as component and USB and what not. Overall, I'm very happy with this TV and highly recommend it. I don't think most people need to spend double or triple on a 4k TV when this does a great job for a bargain price (if you do serious gaming, you will want a better refresh rate though). If you want to improve the sound, just hook up the sound bar although with some tweaks, the sound is adequate without one.

This is a great set and for the price I would give it 5 stars if I could. However, there are some caveats that you would want to know before you go and buy this set. 1. Some users are complaining about the sound on this set. The sound is tinny out of the box so you would have to go in the sound adjustments and play with the settings (max bass and treble for one) and turn on TruSurround and SpokenVoice. The sound then is much better 2. GoogleCast works great and you CAN cast 4K videos from YouTube. Using your iPhone or iPad or computer, you first have to select the 4k resolution option (it may say 2160) and then cast the 4K video. Once you start casting, you will see a small 4K sign on the top right of the video. 3. Hate the remote. Imagine having to cycle through several to get to challen 50 for example. Cannot enter DTV channel numbers directly on remote. You can, however, use the Toshiba App on your iPhone to control the TV without the remote control. 4. The volume up/down and channel up/down and arrows share the same buttons. So if you are hoping to use the same remote to control menus in say the fire stick or FireTV, most buttons wont work.

I was amazed to see this 65" 4K TV on a one day special for just $599 at Best Buy. I grabbed it, even though I had just purchased a 55" 1080 TV a little over a year ago. I wasn't sure how much better the picture would be since almost everything I watch is still just 1080p or lower resolution, so I set up the new Toshiba next to my existing 55" 1080p TV and watched over-the-air HD content on both from just 6 feet back. You could easily see the better resolution on the larger Toshiba TV so it must do some upscaling. The colors are bright and nicely saturated with deep blacks. I haven't done a full calibration on it but it can only get better. I like the Googlecast feature once I set it up on my iPhone. The TV will display a nice rotating selection of artwork if you don't have anything else playing on Googlecast. I am looking forward to learning more about the options available in Googlecast. The remote is very minimal (no buttons to select TV channels when watching over-the-air, just an up/down channel choice, but since most will use their cable controller this is probably not a big issue.

My plasma TV finally died and had to get a replacement. Got this TV at first because of the price and didn't realize it was a 4K TV. Out of the box the picture is not that great but after using a calibration disc to adjust the picture it looks quite good. on this TV. It's also best to turn off all picture enhancements The blacks are not as black as the plasma TV is replaced but good enough for using in the bedroom. As with most newer TV's you will need a sound bar or external speakers if you want the best sound. It's a very light TV at 50lbs. It has Google cast built in so that's the first thing you'll need to setup when you get this TV. Toshiba also has a TV app for IOS that allows you to use your iPhone as a remote. Unfortunately, the app doesn't allow you to turn the TV on. All other remote functions work on the app except the capability of turning the TV on. I've only have the TV a month so I'm not sure what the reliability of this TV is at this point. Overall for the price I paid for it, I'm happy with this purchase and would recommend it to anyone wanting a 4K display for not a lot of money.

I am on strict budget that is why I bought this product. I read the reviews and I knew that sounds me not be great and solutions were mentioned like connecting to a sound system. There was a mentioned about a white part on the upper part of the screen and I fixed that by changing the picture size. The few things that I noticed in my TV are the ffg. The clarity is great when watching animated movies . You will noticed the blur (very visible when movies made not 1080 mode), even w/ HD channel the clarity is not superb, but still OK. I noticed that if you are watching on the side, its clearer than watching right infront of it. I noticed that the plastic used on this TV is not the best one in the market. My example to that was, the middle part edges of the screen has linear white light that I thought at first was a reflection of the lights illuminated by the shows, I inspected it closely and when I tried to press the plastic edges that supporting the screen that part was moved and the linear white light was gone and came back when I released my hands from it. It must be a manufacturer defect or poor plastic material. I was thinking about returning it but because of its size I decided not to. This is the problem about ordering item online. I learned my lesson to check the actual product , inspect it and test it before ordering online. Prior to this, I bought the samsung UHD 55 inch and I actually love it but because of the size factor ( hardly noticed the difference on my old 48 inch HDTV).

I purchased this 65" toshiba tv as an open box deal for an amazing 420.00+ bucks ! It's almost been a year already and I really don't have any complaints at all!!! Tv has such great qualities for the most part and really good for football, baseball , hockey and probably any sporting events!! I guess if I had to find something wrong it would be when something like confetti or a bunch of moving items on tv program, it can get a lil boxy or blurry in certain spots , but rarely happens! I'm told it has to do with the speed of tv... unless u buy something like Samsung well over $1000 bucks thats literally the next level in speed , this is gonna be same with any 65" tv under a grand!! And really it rarely happens and sometimes can't even notice! Really if u wanna spend crazy money, ur probably buying top of line anyways and this won't concern u! But if ur looking for the best bang for your buck this is the BEST and PERFECT choice by far! Really toshiba did a wonderful job with this tv and is better then some Samsung and Panasonic I've had in past!! So yes especially for the price anyone looking for a steal of a deal, this is it and you get it for under $500, big win!!!!

For $599,This t.v. has a decent picture when watching HD channels, however, non HD channels can tend to be very grainy. My biggest problem is, the picture will pause for a second while just watching a regular non fast pace movie, this will happen on all channels, the t.v. will sometimes turn off by itself and restart which would seem to temporarily fix the problem ( which tells me there is a serious issue) but give it some time, and it happens again. There also was time's when I went to shut the t.v. off and it would not completely shut down. I would have to unplug and plug it back in. I contacted Best Buy and they replaced the t.v. without any hassle except for having to be on hold for a very,very long time. My replacement t.v. started doing the exact same thing, call Best Buy back (on hold for another very,very long time) and they said this sounds like a bad batch of t,v.'s. I am currently waiting on my replacement to arrive. However, I checked on the location and this t.v. appears to be coming from the same location as the last one, I'm trying to be optimistic about this (third time's a charm or will it be three strikes). I guess we will find out. I would like to hear from other's if they have had the same issue's?