I bought this TV at Best Buy but since it's a Amazon/Best Buy collaboration I guess it's fine to write the review here.
Getting the TV out of the box is a PITA. They want you to grab it by the plastic bag the TV is wrapped in but when you do it's almost glued to the box and requires you to summon Macho Man to assist you in getting it out.
The little legs that come in the box aren't labeled so it'll take a little guessing to find the one that works for each side.
You'll need a phillips head screw driver to install the legs.
The packaging is a little misleading. It's an LCD TV with an LED backlight. Signing into all your accounts sucks because the remote isn't touch sensitive even though it REALLY looks like it is.
Every time you turn the TV on, you get the home screen. It doesn't remember if you were using an Input or not. I really wish I could disable some of the rows I'm now interested in using.
When watching with an antennae it gives you the option to start over, although I've never tried doing it to see what it actually does. Even has a guide for what antennae shows are on next which is nice.
Overall for 329 it's not a bad TV. Im even considering buying another for another room in my home.
This seems like a very good deal, especially when I purchased it on on sale for 190. I had a 32 inch Samsung on the wall that decided to go out after 3 years service. I am thinking 3-5 years is about all a TV last these days. So I hit Amazon and seen this Bestbuy/AmazonFire tv and in a few days it was here. The only negative I had wasn't much and at this price point not worthy of a star deduction. The screws for the wall mount are not very wide and the holes on my older wall mount rails needed washer to go with these screws or they would have passed right thru the rails. I just took the washers from my previous tv, you "may" need washers if you plan on wall mounting yours as well.
I connected my Spectrum cable box to the HDMI, also added a digital antenna connection (quick channel scan found the stations in my area). I was going to use the Ethernet port but could not locate my cable, so decided to see how well the wifi would do. At this point I turned on the TV with the remote and was presented with a nice little video about the TV. I had the option of installing a FULL system or Basic system of APPs available. Seeing I just wanted Prime Videos and I already had a cable box hooked up, I chose the Basic system. The TV found the WiFi options available and I connected my 5g right to it. A quick update to the operating system downloaded and I was presented with a pretty nice home screen. Tried the Alexa button and got my weather for my local area easily. The Spectrum remote found the matching remote ID easily, which gives me options for volume and power when using the Spectrum remote. Back to the small remote that comes with the tv, it has everything you really need other than a way to change cable box channels. I went to Amazon Prime Video app and quickly added my account info and watched movies with no problem and without buffering or loss of quality on the wifi connection. For the heck of it I installed the youtube app and browsed the Internet with firefox and Silk Browser. Everything worked fine. I have yet to do anything to the default setup for the picture quality because it looks just fine, actually better than the older Samsung. Speaker Volume is even better than the older Samsung. This is going to come down to how long the TV last.(which I grabbed a cheap extension warranty) If it keeps going for around 4-5 years, this will be the bestbuy I could have received for my money. Are there better TVs out there? I am sure there are, but I doubt at this price point. Setup could not be easier. Quite impressed and happy during the Honeymoon.. I will update in the future if any issues pop up or when/if it goes out.
We love this TV ... We bought the 24 inch TV and linked to to an Alexa device for the Kitchen as it fits under the cabinet. I linked it to our Echo Alexa device and it works great! For kitchen use, 720p is perfectly adequate, and it looks fantastic. I am thinking about getting a keyboard and mouse for it in order to make it easier to find recipes,
Super easy to put together and set up - took less than 15 minutes from box to binge watching Netflix on a rainy day! Flawless navigation from Cable TV to Fire. Picture and sound are great!
TRULY FANTASTIC. For a 4k HDR at this price point and size. Dont hesitate to ourchase. Plus the built in Amazon Fire TV. Cartoons show in 2D when we watch.
Its a great tv. Quality is truly amazing.
Feature Product
- Insignia HD Smart TV - Fire TV Edition delivers 720p picture quality with deep blacks and rich colors.
- With the Fire TV experience built-in, enjoy tens of thousands of channels, apps, and Alexa skills, including Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, HBO, SHOWTIME, STARZ, and more.
- Fire TV Edition seamlessly integrates live over-the-air TV and streaming channels on a unified home screen (HD antenna required).
- Easily control your TV with the included Voice Remote with Alexa-plus, launch apps, search for titles, play music, switch inputs, control smart home devices, and more, using just your voice.
- Dimensions (W x H x D): TV without stand: 28.9" x 17.3" x 3", TV with stand: 28.9" x 19" x 8.2". Multiple device input/output options: 3 HDMI including 1 with ARC, USB, composite input, antenna/cable input, digital output (optical), audio output, Ethernet.
Description
Insignia HD Smart TV is a new generation of smart TVs featuring the Fire TV experience built-in and including a Voice Remote with Alexa. With HD picture quality and access to all the movies and TV shows you love, Toshiba Fire TV Edition delivers a superior TV experience that gets smarter every day. The Voice Remote with Alexa lets you do everything you'd expect from a remote-plus, easily launch apps, search for TV shows, play music, switch inputs, control smart home devices and more, using just your voice.
Perfect size for my kitchen wall and with a swing arm I can turn it and watch cooking shows from the kitchen island. Very happy with the TV and set up.
This is my first smart TV, and I'm pretty happy with it after the first couple days. Netflix, Prime, some free live tv options. Very happy that I can stream Audible and Amazon music through it. I don't subscribe to many other services, so I'm not using a lot of the tv's features. There's a ton on here for people who want it.
Very easy set-up. The hardest part was finding a long enough Phillips screwdriver to put the feet on. After that, connect to the router, put in the Amazon and Netflix passwords, and you're good to go.
Very fast. No lag loading programs the way I sometimes had with Amazon Video on the Wii.
The navigation is more cluttered than I'd prefer but not too bad. Mildly annoying that the home screen navigation shows me lots of services and content that I do not want to see. Wish I could customize it to hide the stuff that I'm not gonna buy. But I expected Amazon to advertise their content and channels and whatnot. And the remote has shortcut buttons for Prime, Netflix, HBO, etc.
I do wish the software had better search features. I don't find a box to type in search terms but must use the Alexa remote. And Alexa doesn't know what PBS is? Doesn't know what BBC is? So I can't browse big categories like PBS the way I do online but have to give a specific search phrase. "Civil rights documentary" came up with a ton of results, so the voice remote works well if I'm specific enough.
Sound quality seems to have too much treble in it and is not loud enough, even in a small room. For example, I can hear my audiobooks better on my Kindle Fire than I hear them on this TV. I have to turn the TV up a bit. But I am 50 now and my hearing is fading. I'll try to catch a younger person and make them listen to it, to find out if it's the tv or my ears. It does come with an audio jack, so I may add some inexpensive speakers. Needs more bass in the mix for us old guys?
Overall, for $120, this is a very nice, smaller tv with all the apps and features I was looking for.
Panel snobs may be anti insignia tv's but for us normal folks that don't count the number of pixels on a tv and just want nice set this is the way to go. If you are cutting the cable cord this one is perfect. Yes it works with your cable too, but it intergrates your HD Antenna right into fire tv. This feature just can't be measured in how great it is, one problem my wife has had with over the air tv is that there is no guide, fire tv gives you a seamless guide built right into the fire menu and with the simple press of the speak button just "channel 4" and bam it just turns on the OTA channel and even let's you pause and rewind live antenna tv. I am even considering buying a dang Alexa now. Last great note about this set, it has a Ethernet Jack on it too so you don't have to rely Wi-Fi and are not limited by the speed of Wi-Fi direct gig lan input. The one thing that would be nice is that there are four labled buttons for netfix prime, hbo, vue, I wish that I could reprogram some of them, not going to pay for hbo or vue.
Just bought this TV at Best Buy pre Black Friday sale... 249+tax
This is an awesome deal at 249!!!! Picture is dang good for a budget tv... Screen measures 54.5 corner to corner. It linked to my WiFi easily only took 10 minutes to set up. Highly recommend for sure.
So wanted just a cute little tv for my room and this size is perfect, love the remote I can do Alexa or just go straight to Netflix. Has options for cable and hdmi I really only use it for Netflix,Spotify, and hbo. Only downfall is that sometimes on Hulu or hbo it will lose sound or just randomly go back to the home screen which is a tad annoying but besides that sounds good and picture is amazing!! Worth it for me!!
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