Toshiba 50UL2163DBC 50-Inch Ultra HD Smart TV

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The UL21’s plastic frame gives away the fact it’s a budget option, but it isn’t a terrible looking TV by any means. The 43in model measures 967 x 78 x 565mm (WDH) without its feet, which slot in at either end of the panel and add a further 154mm to the set’s depth, while elevating it by 50mm. The Toshiba 50UL2063DB is a television that offers a range of features. It has a 50-inch display, providing a large viewing area for an immersive entertainment experience. The TV utilizes LED technology, which offers vibrant and sharp visuals. It has a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, providing crisp and detailed images.

The Toshiba UL21 is inexpensive, reasonably bright, delivers colour accurate SDR images, and HDR performance is bolstered by Dolby Vision support. If you can find it for the right price, it’s a solid buy.Ironically, the "smart" features in many TVs can often make them seem a little dumb. If your TV is connected to other smart home devices, like SmartThings, Alexa, Google Home, or Logitech Harmony, it's possible some routine or automation is powering your TV on or off by accident. Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_. TRU Micro Dimming & TRU Resolution improves contrast, focussing on all the different regions of the image. TRU Resolution upscales a wide variety of non-4K content, delivering a more refined image that feels fully immersive.

The 50UK3163DB’s HDR efforts aren’t the only way it makes an unexpected mark on the affordable TV world, either. Its native 4K pictures also look remarkably sharp and detailed. So much so, in fact, that they make the efforts of even some recent LCD TVs we’ve seen from the usually dependable Samsung look soft and undefined by comparison. (Though its upscaled HD pictures, by comparison, look a little soft and noisy.) A great example of what we’re talking about can be seen in the sequence in It where Georgie chases his ill-fated boat down a rain-soaked street. On the 50UK3163DB every raindrop splash is accompanied by a marked HDR gleam, while the light reflecting on the windows of the houses and parked cars blares out with all the intensity you’d expect to see if you were there sploshing down the street after poor Georgie. The UL21 uses the Toshiba Smart Portal operating system. It’s relatively basic compared to leading platforms like webOS and Google TV, but the interface is straightforward and easy to navigate. In fact, the 50UK3163DB HDR image management provides it with so much brightness/light control headroom that it’s able to still make peak highlights of full-screen bright images stand proud of their already punchy surroundings, rather than the brightness just ‘flattening off’ as we might expect with a TV that has less than 500 nits to play with. So, for instance, you become impressively aware of the light gleaming off individual drops of rain during HDR footage of torrential rainfall, or of sunlight catching the corners and curves of car bodywork. Basically, there’s seldom anything in the 50UK3163DB’s sound profile that actively distracts you from what you’re watching, while there’s actually quite a bit that actively tries to involve you. VerdictThe 50UK3163DB’s sound, like its pictures, is pretty good for such an affordable TV. Its speakers are powerful and dynamic enough, for instance, to deliver an expansive sound capable of shifting up and down a few gears quite convincingly during the ebb and flow of a powerful action scene. If a device isn't certified, it won't be listed below. Devices not listed have either not reached the benchmark required for a good BBC iPlayer experience or have not yet been submitted for certification. We only support devices which are certified so you may experience issues with BBC iPlayer on uncertified devices. Just make sure that if you plan on changing any settings again, you change them one-by-one with a few days in between. This way, if the problem restarts, you know exactly which setting is the cause.