Toshiba 32AF43 32" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen

by Toshiba

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• Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 34.5 x 26.5 inches ; 147 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 167 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.
• ASIN: B000093URG
• Item model number: 32AF43
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,985 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Note: The Toshiba 32AF43 32" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen is no longer being manufactured. You may want to consider purchasing the newer Toshiba 32AF44 32" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen instead.

Enjoy vivid, high-contrast pictures from Toshiba's 32-inch FST PURE flat picture tube. Affordable, stylish, and loaded with features, the 32AF43 makes a great upgrade to a DVD or satellite-based home theater. The set's massive 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 32AF43'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.

Color Temperature Control (Warm, Medium, Cool) makes it easy to adjust the set's white balance to achieve the best picture possible, regardless of room lighting. Four factory-set picture-preference modes include sports (bright and dynamic picture), movie (a movie-like picture setting), and memory (user-selectable settings).

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 32AF43 derives a heightened sense of stereo separation from its double-baffle speaker system. 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 three sets of rear AV inputs (both 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 (with selectable fixed- or variable-level audio outputs) lets you hook the set up with a surround receiver. The 32AF43 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.

Product Description

Toshiba 32AF43 Refurbished 32"" FST Pure Flat Screen TV

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Satisfied with this purchase, June 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Toshiba 32AF43 32" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen (Electronics)

Purchased this recently offline, and just hooked this puppy up last week. I have svideo coming from digital cable, svideo from x-box, and component for my toshiba dvd player. The picture is super solid....A huge step up from my old analog tv. DVD looks particularly stunning. The colors are sharp and the images clear. Its not quite hdtv quality (obviously), but it is damn good. I find myself watching shows just for the visual pleasure based on the superb picture. I was gonna go hdtv, but didn't based on limited programming, and trouble I have heard about with standard cable programming. Back to the 32af43- as far as analog goes, I couldn't imagine anything better. Picture-solid, Remote- fine, Ease of use- for sure. THe only word of caution I would give is with regard to major scare I had when first turning on. I have heard about how flat picture tubes can distort, and are sensitive of magnetic pull. I didn't have any other electrical equipement even close to the tv. I turned it on and had a green shine from a few of the edges, proliferating a few inches onto the screen. I was mortified (repair/return- what a pain!). But after the I moved the tv off the floor into my wall unit no green edges, blurr....all good. Perfect.
All in all, for the price, I would definately rec. The picture is great, I have had only great experiences with TOshiba, and they have the courtesy to warranty parts and labor for a year (unlike sony). The inputs are more than enough (1 svid front 1 back, 1 component back, and a couple of standard av inputs). Toshiba also added 16:9 pulldown (which was previously only availible through service menu....and they stayed with the movie/sports...cool/medium,warm color settings which are fine. They also have a memory function for saving settings.
Gave it a 4 based only on the fact that I have only had it a week, and I judge electronics like athletes....over the long term. Other than that its a 5 baby!

54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT SET!, June 21, 2003

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Jeffrey E "jeffinaustintx" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Toshiba 32AF43 32" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen (Electronics)

It's simple. The latest Consumer Reports review on TV's (spring 2003) gave this TV a rating close to the ones reserved for the HDTV group. Not even the Sony had a picture as good as this one. If you go to the electronic stores, take a good look at this tv and compare it to others. But there's a trick you need to watch out for!

The big stores have all of the HDTV's & projection tv's in a darkend area, with the units at eye level and with a direct digital feed. They do this so that the projection and LCD units have a good picture as they tend to wash out under harsher lighting. They also give you plenty of room to step back and observe the picture form a distance (who ever watches a tv from 2-3 feet away!).
The standard tv's will be in their normal area, under harsh lights, on metal shelves and very little room between the isles. They also will usually have a standard, non-amplified feed. They get all the glare, may or may not be at eye level, have a feed that has been split 30 times (reducing the resolution) and you are looking at them from 3 feet away. The net result is that the HDTV's and others look lightyears ahead of all the others (with a price to match!!!). The regular tv's sometimes look worse than the 15 year old set you want to replace.

Take my (and Consumer Reports) word for it and you will be glad that you bought this set. The picture is unbelievable and at this price it is a huge value. You'll save between $100 - $200 over the electronic chains.

Gerat set - fantastic price. We got ours delivered from Amazon yesterday and we stayed up late just admiring the picture.

Oh - and it has great sound to - you'll love it!

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very impressive, August 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Toshiba 32AF43 32" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen (Electronics)

We bought this set when our old ProScan gave up the ghost. What an incredible difference in picture quality! I can't imagine an analog set being any better than this one, it's better than any projection HDTV or low priced tube HDTV. We have a DVD player hooked up using component inputs, and the colors are absolutely saturated and the clarity just sparkles. Do get it delivered, though, it weighs 150 pounds and is quite front heavy.