Toshiba 24AF43 24" Flat Screen TV

by Toshiba

Product Details

Product Manual [2.12mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 26.4 x 20 inches ; 72.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 81 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: B000093URA
• Item model number: 24AF43
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,965 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 24AF43 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 24AF43'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 24AF43 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 24AF43 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.

Product Description

Toshiba 24AF43 Refurbished 24"" Flat Screen TV

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Tv!! A++++, January 30, 2004

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Mark Young (Milwaukee, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba 24AF43 24" Flat Screen TV (Electronics)

I bought this tv, and am extremely satisfied with it so far. I actually went to Best Buy, and got it for $329.99 less 10% Sale equals around $297.00 I got the 4 year product replacement service plan, they have it for a very reasonable $29.99. The picture on this tv and the looks and the sound and all it's features are just awesome, especially for the price. I have read other reviews of those who don't care too much for the remote control. I think the remote is great! It isn't too big, it is very clearly laid out, and simple to understand, not too many buttons, and the buttons kind of glow in the dark. Don't get the Sony 24". After reading some professional reviews on it, it isn't nearly the quality of picture, even though it is the trinitron flat tube. Don't get me wrong, I generally love Sony, I even have it for my main living room TV, a 36-inch Wega trinitron flat screen. We love it as well. Maybe Sony just can't get the 24" Tv right, I don't know, but I listened to the reviews I read online, and I couldn't be happier with this Toshiba. Also, I have great experience with Toshiba. We bought a Toshiba FST flat screen 20-inch TV about 15 years ago. My son now has it, and it still is working fantastic, and has a great picture as well. I really couldn't be happier with this new 24" Toshiba. I most highly recommend it. I also now just ordered the Toshiba SD-V391 Progressive Scan DVD-VCR Combo to go with this tv for a great price right here at Amazon, for only $137.94, free shipping! Get it if you already don't have a dvd player!! It is rated extremely high as well, as far as combo units go. I am looking forward to getting it and hooking it up to this Tv. Hope this review helps your decision making. The only thing is, I went out and bought it at Best Buy, to have peace of mind if anything went wrong with it, I could just bring it in and they would take care of it, for just 29.99, for 4 years coverage.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best TV for Me, March 20, 2004

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Tyler (Denton, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Toshiba 24AF43 24" Flat Screen TV (Electronics)

I bought this TV in November 2003 at a local BestBuy for $320 so I have had considerable time to test it out. I previously had a 20" Sony WEGA, but it had a problem where red lines would be visible across the screen.

PICTURE - 5/5

I found the initial picture settings to be less than optimal. I changed the settings to something like this...beginning with Contrast and going downward ending at Sharpness mine goes 40, 20, 40, 0, 60. This provides the best picture you can get out of this set in my opinion. In a dark room the blacks will be true black instead of having a blueish-tint with the initial settings. I have my Nintendo Gamecube hooked up with S-Video and the game text and images are really sharp, providing a definite step-up from composite. My JVC DVD player is hooked up through component with even more amazing clarity. I find the ColorStream setting is best on DTV instead of DVD.

SOUND - N/A

I recommend getting a cheap home theater set-up (I have the Sony HT-DDW750, a very good complete system with DTS, Pro Logic II and Digital decoding) as it makes all the difference as far as audio goes. I used the speakers on the TV for a little while and found them to be quite adequate. The voices were clear with the BBE setting and music was alright.

EASE OF USE - 4/5

I hardly need to use the TV remote as my others have taken its place. I have had no trouble at all with this remote. However, I do switch video inputs very often and need to use the TV/VIDEO button frequently. It would be nice if the TV had this button on the set itself to change between Video 1, 2, 3 and ColorStream. The menus are basic and easy to understand and settings can be accessed very quickly.

CONCLUSION

I am very satisfied with this TV. I needed a smaller set for my room and this has been perfect. If you go to the store and check TVs in this size range, you will see that this one is just as sharp as the Sony and JVC (and blows away all the rest), costs less and has all the same features and more.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Toshiba TV, 24 inch, flat screen, January 2, 2004

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Lewis McLean (Harleysvile, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba 24AF43 24" Flat Screen TV (Electronics)

The Toshiba 24 inch flat screen TV is a winner!!!Easy to set up,
very good remote, excellent picture and great sound.I purchased one for the bedroom, and now will purchase a second one for the den.It took a lot of searching on the web and in many stores to find a set that met our requirements for excellence...but this set exceeds them. Lew McLean, [e-mail]