Many HDTVs these days come with either a USB port or an SD Card slot for home multimedia, but the 47ZV650U is one of the rare models that offer both. You can plug in a USB flash drive carrying photos copied from your PC, or simply slip in the card from your camera. The photo viewing feature works fine, although the slideshow lacked options like transitions. Although the 47ZV650U claims to handle music and videos through USB (but not SD), we couldn't get this to work. As of this writing Toshiba has yet to give us an explanation as to why we may have encountered this issue.

This Energy Star 3.0-compliant HDTV uses about 103 watts when turned on, according to the PC World Labs. That's exceptionally good for a 47-inch set. It burns 0.4 watt when off.

Most of this TV's features are explained in the 81-page English manual, but the manual is dense with text, and intimidating. The set has no separate quick-setup guide, and the manual isn't available as a PDF online.

The Toshiba 47ZV650U is a solid HDTV all around, though not exceptional. But for a 47-incher you can buy for $1300, it's a worthy contender.