Quote Originally Posted by drseid
Certanly your perogative not to support anything Toshiba puts out and I respect your feelings... I have actually had the same negative experience, but with Sony TVs... I guess I never learn because I keep buying them anyway as the picture quality tends to be pretty good. I just now make sure that I get a good in-home extended warranty as I know I will use it *many* times.... ;-)

The video electronics brands I have had the best luck with are Panasonic and Denon. Both don't have places in my system anymore... go figure. Maybe if either ever release a HD DVD/Blu-ray combo player I would pounce on it.

---Dave
Yeah, panny makes reliable but somewhat utilitarian products, as for sony you cant beat the picture, never had A sony break on me (TV anyway) but right now I am going for pix size
Denon is great, had two, but they tend to roll off their highs
Had a top of the line denon once, 75w into two channels, 595( about 1800 in todays dollars) last piece of pure audiophile gear I had, even tho my current receiver has things like a phono stage, "pure audio" etc.
But with tosh the experience has been almost universally bad, when they screw something up they really aim for the bleachers.
One thing I noticed on this site is being called a "basher" or "negative" simply stating the facts.
Well, modern electronics are expensive, and you have to mail them off when they break,
mostly, and tosh doesnt even pass the minimum standard of reliable, at least to me, and I want people to know, is all.
For all of the features they put on modern devices the best by far is not having to unplug
and uninstall it and mail it off, just putting it in and enjoying it.
This is not hard to do and is the least you should expect