14 DAY TRIAL // Japanese technology giant Toshiba has recently presented their normal 55” LED QuadHD TV set. This new model is called the Regza 55XS5 and it keeps the 3840 x 2160 LCD panel like its older 3D headache-enabled brother, but it switches to edge LED lighting instead of local dimming and gets rid of the annoying 3D function.
Unfortunately, the new TV set from Toshiba is clearly not FullLED. While this is a clear improvement over the old LCDs, we believe that a 2,000 EUR high-end TV set should have FullLED by defaut.
Considering the price of the Regza 55XS5, edge LED seems like a ripoff.
The contrast ratio is a very good 5,000 to 1 and the horizontal viewing angle is the usual 178 degrees.
The refresh rate is 240 Hz, so 3D support could have been there if desired.
The new TV is very slim. It is actually slimmer than its 3D enabled precursor and there's a CEVO Duo image processing engine inside the slimmed-down frame.
This engine is tasked with upscaling your standard HDTV resolution signal to the QuadFullHD resolution that the Regza 55XS5 brings.
According to Wikipedia, Quad FullHD resolution is:
QFHD (Quad Full High Definition) and sometimes referred to as 4K2K is a display resolution of 3840×2160 pixels arranged in a 16:9 aspect ratio. It is four times the resolution of the 1080p HDTV video standard, hence the name (Quad meaning 4). HDMI 1.4 supports QFHD.
This is also support for applications and external USB hard drive for recording broadcasts.
The Regza 55XS5 model should ship in June in the Land of the Rising Sun and it’s expected to be priced around 9,410 USD.
That is around 7,255 EUR for the European TV fans.
