Toshiba 24AF42 24" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen

by Toshiba

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18.7 x 26.3 x 20 inches ; 73 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 82 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000066R5X
• Item model number: 24AF42
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #329,001 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 24-inch FST PURE flat picture tube. Affordable, stylish, and loaded with features, the 24AF42 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 24AF42'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.

The set provide stereo reception (with five watts per channel) and SAP (second audio program), which is often used to broadcast an alternate-language track. The 24AF42 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 of which has 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 24AF42 also features V-Chip parental controls, a sleep timer, 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

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Okay audio, superb (but quirky) video, excellent value., October 13, 2002

By 

Damo Suzuki (Toronto) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 24AF42 24" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen (Electronics)

Audio is quite good for a set in this price range, but still suffers in comparison to, say, my [amt]computer speakers.

Image quality, judged from DVD and current-generation gaming consoles connected via component video inputs, is absolutely superb; the default/baseline visual settings produce horribly exaggerated screen contrast, although this is easily tweaked and remedied.

My rating is based on quality alone; on quality for price, however, 5/5 would be more appropriate.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very good TV - but annoying quirk with volume control, January 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Toshiba 24AF42 24" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen (Electronics)

In a search for a bedroom TV, I found this set and the Sony's. I feel that the picture quality of the Toshiba FST was slightly better than the Sony. It also had a better set of video inputs on the back of the set than the Sony (Toshiba allowed 2nd set of inputs to be composite or component video; Sony 2nd set of inputs is component only). The only feature I feel is missing in the set is color temperature control (the Sony does have this).

One problem I encountered with the Toshiba was that when turning up the volume, there is a huge jump between "4" (barely audible) and "5" (almost normal volume). I call to a Toshiba CSR claimed that this was normal behavior for this TV. Since I need lower volume levels occasionally, I was forced to return this TV. A second unit had the same problem. Just be aware of this if you are considering purchasing one of these for your bedroom or will need to run it at low volume levels.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars regulation problems, January 21, 2003

By 

Alexander R. Pruss (Waco, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba 24AF42 24" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen (Electronics)

I bought one of these at bestbuy.com. The colors were nice and the image was nice and sharp. The big problem was regulation. When an image had large bright areas, vertical lines would become curved. One doesn't notice this all that much when watching a movie or a TV program, but it's really clear on things like still photos shown by my DVD player. And even when watching a TV program, one can still notice it when one looks at images with lots of bright areas and clear vertical lines, like doorways.

I first noticed the problem when looking at JPEG stills in my DVD player. The DVD player (Cyber Home CH-500) puts a frame around the pictures, and the frame was distorted.

Adjusting the geometry via the service menu doesn't help much, since the problem is that bright areas in the picture shift the geometry anyway. Reducing brightness and contrast does help, but some of the problem remains.

I tested this with a laptop emitting some still images I drew. You can see the results of the test at home.att.net/~apruss/24af42.html. I also tried another 24AF42 at Best Buy on display, and it had the same problems. (I must confess that I forgot to try to adjust contrast and brightness on the display unit, so maybe it would have helped more on that unit.)

I suggest you either go for the 27-inch version (27AF42) which in my store testing did not exhibit the problem (there was some distortion, but it was within much more acceptable limits, I think) or check the unit carefully before buying. But maybe I was just unlucky with the two I tested.