The aluminium plate stand offers very little clearance, which means a soundbar will block off the IR receiver. The TV measures at 732 x 78 x 439mm without the stand, or 732 x 189 x 472mm with it, weighing 7kg to make it slim and lightweight. The scene where Steve Rogers infiltrates the Lumerian Star is rendered too dim to spot any shadow detail or detail in general. Its elegant black stand doesn’t draw undue attention to itself, and sits under the screen’s central section so that it’s easy to fit the TV onto even quite narrow pieces of furniture.

Red is most prominent in the RGB balance at just about every brightness point but not to the extent that a reddish tint is visible when looking at the screen. cm, a screen resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, an aspect ratio of 16:9, 3 HDMI ports to connect a Blu-ray player, DVD, a game console, etc.In fact, the 50UK3163DB HDR image management provides it with so much brightness/light control headroom that it’s able to still make peak highlights of full-screen bright images stand proud of their already punchy surroundings, rather than the brightness just ‘flattening off’ as we might expect with a TV that has less than 500 nits to play with. The Toshiba UK31 comes with the full-set of Toshiba’s Tru Picture Engine features that cover motion (Tru Flow), upscaling (Tru Resolution) and contrast (Tru Micro Dimming). I personally liked the look of the Cinema mode best, as it offered richer reds, deeper blacks and better contrast for a punchier image. The sound also projects forward and sideways from the screen quite effectively, avoiding that feeling so often heard with built-in TV audio systems that sound only seems to exist behind the screen.

One final strength of the 50UK3163DB’s pictures is that dark scenes aren’t impacted by any really distracting backlight blooming or general clouding inconsistencies.

ports, one of which is of the ARC variety, along with two USB-A ports, a TV antenna input and a common interface slot. It also includes Toshiba’s TRU Flow motion handling, which is especially useful if you watch a lot of sport. Google Analytics (when enabled in Guide Settings) allows subscribers to gain insights into the use of their help center. In fact, Dolby Vision tends to have more beneficial impact on relatively affordable TVs like this Toshiba than it does on really high-end sets.

Hook up the Toshiba Connect to a USB port and it performs like any other Alexa device, with the Alexa logo popping up on the screen when she’s in use. In fact, when it comes to the bright end of the light spectrum, it delivers arguably the most aggressive HDR performance in its class. The audio performance lacks finesse, so an external audio system would be needed to give it a boost.The mid-range is quite open and expressive, and escalates decently well to meet the challenge of big action movie moments. If wall-mounting is not a consideration (or feasible) there’s the stand to deal, which while easy to screw in, is surprisingly heavy and brings the TV’s profile down low.

Crisp and colour rich, the Toshiba UK31 makes a good bright room flatscreen and looks its best with brightly lit daytime TV, news and animation. Freeview Play guarantees a full complement of mainstream catch-up players (BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My5, UKTV Play and sundries), plus an extensive collection of box sets. With Tru Flow on, there remain moments of judder – and even turned off the image retains a processed look. Our full Toshiba UL21 review praised its Dolby Vision support and strong 4K image quality, and also features a direct back light for punchier HDR, just like this model.But both lose out to the Hisense Roku and TCL RP620K by virtue of those televisions’ superb Roku operating system, which won’t see you miss out on Apple TV+, Disney+, Now or BT Sport.