Toshiba 13A23 13" Mono TV (Black)

by Toshiba

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 14.3 x 12.6 inches ; 20.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 25 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000093UR5
• Item model number: 13A23
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #232,917 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Toshiba's affordable and--at a mere 21 pounds--eminently moveable 13A23 is perfect for the bedroom, kitchen, or kids' room--it even features extensive parental controls like V-Chip, channel lock, video lock, and GameTimer. And if falling asleep in front of the tube is your thing, you'll appreciate the sleep timer, which shuts the unit off after a predetermined duration. The 13-inch monaural set uses Toshiba's acclaimed Blackstripe II picture tube for clear, high-contrast images.

Standard RF and composite-video inputs accommodate all DVD players and most other video sources, while a set of front AV inputs fosters easy connection with a camcorder, DVD player, or gaming console. The 13A23 also features a trilingual onscreen display, a sleep timer, channel return, noise muting, a glow-in-the-dark remote control, and a headphone jack for private listening.

What's in the Box
Television, remote control, batteries, user's manual, warranty information.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value, good picture quality, January 30, 2004

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Kenneth Stuart (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba 13A23 13" Mono TV (Black) (Electronics)

First, I should mention that I have not seen any of the other TVs in this price range and size range. This TV replaced a 25-year old TV the same size (which still works), which I use next to my PC. (I also have a modern set in the living room and have used a variety of 19 inch TVs in hotel rooms.)

I'm quite pleased with the performance of this TV. The color rendition is excellent - I'm sure that this aspect of the performance is as good as you can get in this price range and comes close to more expensive sets.

The detail and clarity are good, but do represent the limitation of what you can get in a low-priced set. I'm sure the high end 13-inch sets that cost about twice as much would give better resolution, and a flat screen would provide that life-like, three-dimensional quality that I see in my living room TV.

If there is any flaw in the picture of this set, it is the *slight* "buzzy" quality to the image. If you visualize the difference between a scene lit by fluorescent lighting and one lit by incandescent lighting, then you understand what I mean. But again, it is slight and undoubtedly found in most or all sets in this price range.

The sound on this set is cleverly engineered. The amplifier has very little power, due to the cost limitations, and the speaker is small, due to the small size of the TV. So, Toshiba engineered the sound to have great clarity. Speech is very intelligible, and music is clearly heard, although far from impressive or loud. The result is entirely adequate for the usual living room/office/bedroom use - if you are going to use this to view movies in your (small) living room (or dorm room), get one of the sets costing about twice as much instead.

NOTE: In order to get a good picture with this set, you are going to need to turn down a lot of the settings (which is not unusual - factory settings are solely designed to make the set stand out in showroom lineups). I had to turn the sharpness down to zero, and even then, I think that I would like to have it yet lower than that (to help with the "buzzy" quality). I also had to turn down the contrast setting to "8", although I sit close to the set and so need this a little lower than if I were sitting across the room - but even then the setting would need to be significantly lower than the factory setting.