Horizontal dark and light grey lines on Toshiba 34HFX85 ?

Are they in the picture or on the top and bottom, or in the middle of the picture Does this set a OTA ASCT HD tuner? have you tried an antenna to see if you still have the problem?

Service call says nothing is wrong with picture?
Technician states that people just are not aware of "BAD RECPTION" issues when viewing analog signals on HD tv's.
I've got the directv hd box on order-will update later.

You say this TV is new. Can you still return it?

I purchased the 30" version of the Toshiba Cinema Series 16x9 CRT TV a little over a year ago. I had it for about a week and returned it. I had to argue vehemently with the dealer and only could get an in store credit. They tried to make it seem like I was the only one who had ever been dissatisfied with this series of TV's. I bought two DVD recorders with the credit.

The TV was a big disappointment, both with standard definition cable TV and also a Panasonic progressive scan DVD player. Poor picture quality with lots of noise, geometric distortion and not acceptable especially in comparison to the 27" Sony which it was suppose to replace. The 8 year old Sony had a far superior picture. I always thought Toshiba made excellent quality CRT's but they have obviously gone way downhill.

I then checked online and found lots of bad comments about this series. In Consumer Reports March 2006 issue, they rate the 34HFX85 as fair (2 stars out of 5 stars) on their four picture quality columns. The Sony's rated 4 and 5 stars. A few months ago I finally bought a 37" 8UK series Panasonic EDTV plasma. It cost about $1450 compared to the $900 for the Toshiba but is so much better it is not even close. Sony is the only CRT left that still has excellent picture quality.

Again, I'm sorry to post this but I think you will probably come to the same conclusion eventually and you might need some amunition and know that you are not alone if you decide to return it.

Best of luck with this TV situation.

RR6 (Chuck(

You say this TV is new. Can you still return it?

I purchased the 30" version of the Toshiba Cinema Series 16x9 CRT TV a little over a year ago. I had it for about a week and returned it. I had to argue vehemently with the dealer and only could get an in store credit. They tried to make it seem like I was the only one who had ever been dissatisfied with this series of TV's. I bought two DVD recorders with the credit.

The TV was a big disappointment, both with standard definition cable TV and also a Panasonic progressive scan DVD player. Poor picture quality with lots of noise, geometric distortion and not acceptable especially in comparison to the 27" Sony which it was suppose to replace. The 8 year old Sony had a far superior picture. I always thought Toshiba made excellent quality CRT's but they have obviously gone way downhill.

I then checked online and found lots of bad comments about this series. In Consumer Reports March 2006 issue, they rate the 34HFX85 as fair (2 stars out of 5 stars) on their four picture quality columns. The Sony's rated 4 and 5 stars. A few months ago I finally bought a 37" 8UK series Panasonic EDTV plasma. It cost about $1450 compared to the $900 for the Toshiba but is so much better it is not even close. Sony is the only CRT left that still has excellent picture quality.

Again, I'm sorry to post this but I think you will probably come to the same conclusion eventually and you might need some amunition and know that you are not alone if you decide to return it.

Best of luck with this TV situation.

RR6 (Chuck(

DirectTV is due at my house on Monday morning. Will be installing New HD receiver along with an external antenna to hopefully pick up OTA local channels.
Hope to see a "big" difference in HD progaming with HDMI set up.