Toshiba 20AF43 20" Flat Screen TV

by Toshiba

Product Details

Product Manual [2.12mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 19.1 x 23.2 x 17.6 inches ; 50.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 59 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: B000093UR9
• Item model number: 20AF43
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,775 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Enjoy vivid, high-contrast pictures from Toshiba's 20-inch FST PURE flat picture tube. Affordable, stylish, and loaded with features, the 20AF43 makes a great upgrade to a DVD or satellite-based home theater. The set's FST PURE flat tube eliminates intrusive reflections from ambient light relative to conventional CRT designs and broadens the angles from which the screen may be viewed.

The 20AF43's three-line digital comb filter and vertical contour correction further enhance resolution by removing blurred edges between colors and reducing dot crawl (tiny, moving dots of color along a sharp color separation in a vertical line, as in a depiction of a character's striped T-shirt).

Meanwhile, velocity-scan modulation improves the definition at picture edges, creating sharper images by slowing the CRT (cathode-ray tube) beam's horizontal scanning during demanding work--say, when rendering transitions from light to dark parts of an image--and speeding it up when scanning easily rendered sections, like broad dark areas. Another technology, black-level expansion, improves contrast (which results in a sharper, more three-dimensional picture).

The set provides stereo reception (with five watts per channel) and SAP (second audio program), which is often used to broadcast an alternate-language track. The 20AF43 derives a heightened sense of stereo separation from its double-baffle speaker system, and BBE High-Definition Sound improves speech intelligibility and restores the dynamic range of compressed musical passages.

A ColorStream component-video input provides the ultimate picture quality from interlaced component-video signals; standard composite-video inputs accommodate all DVD players and most other video sources. You get two sets of rear AV inputs (one with S-video) as well as one set of front AV inputs for easy connection with a camcorder or gaming console. A rear AV output lets you hook the set up with a surround receiver. The 20AF43 also features V-chip parental controls, a sleep timer, channel lock, GameTimer, and a glow-in-the-dark universal remote control.

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars electrica hum from back of unit, May 26, 2003

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GreenFoci "GreenFoci" (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 20AF43 20" Flat Screen TV (Electronics)

The television is a nice small size so perfect for a bedroom but the television makes an electrical hum from the back of the unit. The hum just drives me nuts. I thought this might be a defective unit but others have commented on this problem with last year's model. So looks like they have not fixed this issue.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, January 13, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Toshiba 20AF43 20" Flat Screen TV (Electronics)

No humming noise on my end. I don't know if the other reviewers were somewhat unlucky & got a malfunctioned TV, but I hear no humming noise what so ever. In fact when I mute the TV sound, I hear no sound at all. Anyways this is an excellent Product. Very clear picture, great sound (surround & BBE), and I love the 16:9 feature! The component video (need a special component video cable Red Green Blue) with the DVD player (Toshiba Colorstream both ends) makes DVD's look amazing. Why pay $... or more for a Sony TV with an inferior quality picture & less features? If I have to find a fault then I would say that the text on the remote control is too small (only fault I can find, nitpicking). Best TV purchase I made, highly recommend.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars only choice, December 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Toshiba 20AF43 20" Flat Screen TV (Electronics)

i'm a long time sony fan, and it took me a while to finally decide to get the toshiba. the sony just didn't have the picture or the features to be competitive.... and, most importantly, the toshiba picture blows away the competing Sony model. Even if the toshiba cost more, I would have picked it. A great set that you can't go wrong with.