Toshiba 50UK3163DB

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It’s hard to think of any TV brand that better fits Forrest Gump’s “life is like a box of chocolates” mantra than Toshiba. With the Toshiba name now being applied to TVs made chiefly in Turkey rather than Japan, we’ve seen a pretty dizzying mixture of the decent, the bad and the ugly from Toshiba’s recent TV efforts.

With this in mind it was pretty much impossible to predict what we were going to get out of the new 50in 50UK3163DB when it landed on our test benches. Certainly we could never in our wildest dreams have predicted that it was actually going to end up dazzling us with arguably the most aggressively ‘next-gen’ pictures we’ve seen from any sub-£500 TV to date.

Market context

While the 50UK3163DB’s £449 price might seem cheap by regular 50in TV standards, it’s actually on the high side for a budget-oriented brand