can a 350 TV actually be good yes very good and that is because this Toshiba
m550 isn't actually a 350 TV or at least it wasn't at first I believe that this
is the best TV you can get at that price point by far and I'll explain exactly
why and why I went to Best Buy and I bought this model when Toshiba reached
out to us and they wanted to Showcase their TV lineup now as you guys know we
get thousands of emails and I have turned most of them down because of
their products but this TV right here came out about a year ago for eight
hundred dollars and now it just dropped to 350 dollars and it is an amazing
steal now to be honest I am a TV snob I have that huge 4K projector system in my
basement I bought TVs that are six seven times the price and I bought TVs that
were twice as expensive but we're not as good for five main reasons and the first
one is image quality so many TVs out there are 4K but the difference is
massive and this TV actually has local dimming up to 48 zones which is unheard
of at this price point that means instead of like the cheaper MacBooks
where you have a gray screen when you're watching Dark content especially at
night you have much deeper blacks because part of the screen can
completely shut off its back lighting and that greatly increases the contrast
and makes the highlights really pop in particular for HDR this makes the image
much more Vivid it makes it pop and all the processing is done with toshiba's
rexa engine 4K Pro which was designed and tuned in Japan as I mentioned this
is a 4K TV so you have a lot of detail but with that Toshiba is using their AI
4K upscaling to bring 1080p content even 1080p gaming to look much better are
bringing it up to 4K and it's not just over sampling or simply replicating
every pixel and intelligently detects the colors of neighboring pixels and
decides the proper color in a detail and texture that you should have to give you
near 4K quality with that it supports a wide color gamut of over 90 percent TCI
P3 which means it offers much more colors than a conventional LED TV to
give you finer color variations and it gives you more color depth with richer
Shades now that is especially important for HDR content which could be 10 bit to
make it look like it was intended to look and with that it supports not only
HDR 10 but also HDR 10 plus and Dolby Vision so you're covered on all of the
fronts now certain applications will support Dolby Vision while other ones
like Amazon Prime video it supports HDR 10 plus so you really want to have both
of these and with that if you're watching a regular HDR that isn't smart
HDR well they actually have a function that's called 4K gradation correction
which in real time corrects luminance and colors to give you a great looking
HDR image even if the signal is not proper an HDR rest duration that can
bring some of those highlights back down so that it will look its best and
because of this no matter what kind of signal you're washing it does look good
on this TV instead of Cheaper models that can be very flat or have highlights
that are just out there where it's pure white where an SDR image wouldn't have
that issue and now with that this TV also has really wide viewing angles
because the front panel is really nice same thing with the LCD panel so if
you're sitting on the side it still looks good and you probably noticed that
the bezels are very slim on this TV most budget TVs will have really thick bezels
because it's cheaper but because this is a much nicer one and the price point has
come down you get the super slim bezel all around which makes it look nice and
clean and modern and it's less distracting from what you're trying to
watch it also has ultimate motion 120 hertz which is great for games that will
smooth everything out along with sports and with that you can actually dive into
the menu and you can turn it off for things like watching movies if you want
it to run at 24 frames per second and you have a lot of different settings so
you can adjust how much the dynamic tone mapping and other software options are
using to get the best image that you like and for gaming and sports there's
dedicated modes that can easily optimize for that and the game mode can turn on
automatically which will reduce latency now other than the picture quality
there's some other reasons why this TV really stands out and the first one is
sound it supports multiple dolbys including Dolby Atmos and DTS which
means that the sound is optimized and for most TVs that are at this price
point the speakers really suck this one has really powerful speakers that
surprised me with surprisingly good bass because once again it wasn't designed as
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the next thing that really stands out and surprised me is the build quality
when I took it out of the box I was happy that they had great padding all
around so you're not touching the display and the build quality is really
great the main top portion of the back panel is solid metal and then the bottom
portion is high quality plastic and we do have a vase amount built into the TV
and not only that but the legs
themselves are made out of metal they're not plastic and where they install the
whole frame portion of that is also metal instead of being plastic for other
TVs at this price point and it also has a bunch of inputs we actually have a lan
Port Optical out a headphone jack as well as a USB port four hdmis including
Arc and some Legacy connections and one thing that I really appreciated is that
the legs actually have cable management built in to there so you can route your
cables without them hanging off the back or having to use tape now this TV also
supports Bluetooth and Dual Band Wi-Fi so you can have a fast connection and
not only does it come with the Fire TV smart remote but it also comes with an
IR blaster that you can connect to it just in case you have it hung up so that
you can get a proper signal Now setting this thing up was incredibly easy
because it does use Fire TV I was able to use my smartphone to connect to my
Amazon account and I was just logged in that makes it very simple and then I
could select the additional apps that I want to use because it's a smart TV and
it just downloaded and installed it automatically it also comes with a basic
mode if you don't want the full experience but switching to the full
mode you have access to live TV thousands of channels of course it runs
Alexa so if I say it right now you guys see that it pops up right there and so
you can use it as an Alexa device to have things show up on it and that is
very very handy you can control your smart home and the remote also has a
microphone built in so I could just say open Amazon Prime video and it's going
to pop up and open up that app without me having to go home and navigate
through all of that now if you don't want to use the remote or like what
happens at my house the kids are using it gets misplaced it gets lost well the
microphones are far field so it can hear you from a further distance and if you
have music or kids in the background it can still hear your voice so I could say
Alexa play peripheral on Prime video and Bam it is playing that show even though
I never played it on this TV yet I was playing it at home so everything is tied
in with the Amazon Fire TV setup now along with the apps that I mentioned we
also have the free channels which you can watch free TV of course you can go
in and you can download other apps and applications and because it's tied into
Amazon you have Amazon music I have my photos which I back up there you have an
internet browser and you don't have to use the apps that are built in of course
you can stream to it including being able to use airplay so if you have a lot
of Apple devices like I do you can pair it up one time and then be able to play
your content like I have Dave Lee playing right now his new laptop video
or other things just like screen sharing photos and things like that now Toshiba
TV is actually running a giveaway until December 18th to celebrate the FIFA
World Cup there's only a few steps that you guys have to do to enter to win an
Amazon gift card and all of that will be down below along with the link to the TV
so overall if you're looking for a TV that is not expensive and one that's
going to have an amazing picture with really good sound and great smart
features you cannot beat this Toshiba m550 I like the 15 inch 55 inch size
it's going to be going to my basement when that is remodel build and set up
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