

Even on a sunny day in a room with many windows, it’s easy to watch darker content. There are two factors that help the display hold up really well in everyday viewing conditions: the brightness and the anti-reflective finish of the display. The Blender short-film Cosmo’s Laundromat was an excellent showcase of the TV’s capabilities, with the textures of all the sheep, the contrast of the visuals, and the cyclone of colors toward the end all coming through dazzlingly. The fine details of characters’ hair and textures on clothing and other materials really popped.

That pairing with the sharp details made for an excellent viewing experience.

In contrast, watching Tenet on HBO Max, we enjoyed a richly colorful picture. Some content we watched while testing was indeed vivid and rich with color, but Electric Dreams on Prime Video tended to fall short in color saturation. One would expect that color to come into play with 4K HDR content, but there’s a little inconsistency there. The picture can also deliver some strong color. Visuals on the C350 are crisp and detailed, particularly when viewing 4K content, though it also does a good job with non-4K content.
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The TV does support HDMI-CEC, though, so it’s easy to use with an external video source if desired. It’s never painfully slow, but even the $50 Chromecast with Google TV feels consistently more snappy. We’ve noticed a few infrequent but not completely rare occasions of streaming apps crashing out to the home screen without any notice, which does make the slower processing a little tedious as we go back through the process of starting playback again. It slows down particularly when it’s working to do one thing, like scrobble through a video timeline, and we try to have it do a second thing as well, like change the volume. The TV isn’t the snappiest, with occasional sluggishness. Alexa speeds things up a bit, with quick responses on the TV and easy access on the remote. Operating system settings are accessible from the homescreen, while display and audio settings are a single click away on the remote, making it simple to change settings then see and hear the results immediately after. Setup and settings are easy to navigate and fairly simple. The Toshiba C350 runs on Amazon’s Fire TV operating system and this gives it easy access to a wide range of streaming content like Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, YouTube and, of course, Amazon's own Prime Video streaming service. However, it's not the fastest or smoothest experience.Fire TV offers access to a wide array of services.(Image credit: Mark Knapp) Smart TV (Fire TV)
