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hi david katz maya from CNN and I'm with the toshiba 65l 9300 you this is the company's best TV for 2013 and it is a 4k resolution television that means it has four times the number of pixels is standard 1080p TV the idea is to provide extra sharpness when it is given 1080p and 4k sources of course 4k sources are extremely uncommon today she mostly going to be up converting 1080p and watching it on this television toshibas exterior design falls a little bit short of some of the other 4k TVs out there that look really futuristic to justify their high prices this set has a silver bezel around the edge these sort of rounded corners look a little bit retro the stand matches at least it's open and it does allow a little bit of swivel so that's one nice feature another unfortunate retro touches the menu system it was pretty slow to respond and on a big screen like this it's old-school graphics really look data there's a lot of jagged edges and softness that menu does encompass the TV smart TV feature suite which again is not really laid out or designed as well as some of the other TVs we've seen the cloud TV function as they call it kind of berries the best functions including netflix and a lot of the other streaming services there is no Amazon Instant on this TV another kind of knock and all told it is one of the least impressive smart TV Suites we've seen on the other hand Toshiba does include in the box a wireless USB keyboard with a touch pad so that makes navigating the browser in particular a lot easier on this TV on the other hand the browser of course is pretty lackluster compared to we're used to on your phone or tablet or especially a PC the other big standout feature on this television is passive 3d Toshiba throws in four pairs of 3d glasses and that passive 3d plus 4k resolution really helps i'll talk about that in a little bit personally talk about 4k resolution on this TV real quick like the other 65-inch 4k TVs I've tested it's really difficult to tell the difference between this and a 65-inch 1080p TV with both 4k and standard program material so again you're not going to get much of a benefit in sharpest on this TV despite all those extra pixels unless you sit extremely close this TV despite its 4k resolution really falls short in other picture quality areas primarily contrast it's black levels are relatively light again lighter than a lot of the other budget LCD TVs that I compared it to let alone ones in its price range that of course me the picture look pretty washed out the color is not quite popped nearly as much as you'd expect on a TV that cost this much there's also some blooming artifacts where some of the brighter areas spilled over into the darker areas off angle wasn't great and this TV did collect a lot of light in a bright room so I'll told a pretty bad performer again for a 4k television color was pretty good and again we did mention that 3d picture quality 4k resolution plus passive 3d gives you the best of both worlds you get excellent sharpness with 3d basically the same as an active 3d TV as opposed to a standard 1080p 3d TV where you do have some artifacts none of that with this television you also get the benefits of passive 3d which includes zero crosstalk which didn't get those ghostly double images the glasses are a lot more comfortable and cheaper to use so all told this TV is great for its 3d but again it does suffer those same quality issues that we saw in 2d the toshiba's connectivity is ample with 4 HDMI one component video input and even an analog VGA style pc input there's also a pair of USB and an SD card slot toshiba also says the hdmis can be upgraded we compatible with 20 specification meaning they can accept a 60 framerate signal with 4k that firmware update is coming soon the L 9300 you is a 2013 for ktv 1a toshiba's first and the company did announce a slew of other TVs in 2014 with 4k resolution that might improve upon this TVs picture quality until then don't worry about this one wait for the next one that's a quick look at toshiba zell 9300 you 4k television I'm David Katz Meyer