The 24-inch Toshiba 24AF46 flat-screen CRT television proves you don't need to spend an arm and a leg to bring vividly colorful HDTV programming into your home. It has a variety of video technologies that will enhance your enjoyment of both standard and and high-definition pictures, including a digital comb filter and advanced velocity scan modulation. It has a built-in NTSC tuner for over-air (terrestrial) standard broadcasts, but you can connect an optional HD receiver or cable/satellite set-top box via the component video inputs for viewing HDTV broadcasts. The FST PURE flat screen picture tube delivers increased viewing angles along with the enhanced picture linearity necessary to produce accurate, life-like images. This feature eliminates unwanted reflections from room lighting, which is a common problem in conventional tube designs. It also improves sharpness and brightness. For HDTV viewing, this set offers selectable 16:9 aspect ratio modes (the native high-def aspect ratio) for displaying widescreen HDTV images on this 4:3 television. The vertical compression mode function creates black bars at the top and bottom of the screen and displays all 1080 lines inside the illuminated 16:9 portion of the screen. The Letterbox Mode actively scans the entire screen, creating gray bars above and below the picture area.
The digital comb filter converts chrominance and luminance signals into a digital medium prior to separation and 2H delay. This process provides enhanced color purity and reduced dot crawl. It's also able to eliminate detail noise in intricate scenes as well as reduce color bleed from broadcast sources. The advanced velocity scan modulation feature improves black to white image transitions for sharper detail and enhanced picture definition in high brightness operating conditions.
The GameTimer feature also allows parents to set the TV to shut off after a specified period of game playing, and it will stay off until a lockout key code is entered. Other features include a glow-key remote contol, closed caption decoding, channel labeling, favorite channel, tri-lingual onscreen menus (English, French, Spanish), and V-Chip parental controls.
This set has two stereo speakers that produce 5 watts of power per channel (10 watts total) that can produce virtual surround sound. The double baffle front-firing speaker design delivers improved stereo sound reproduction without connection additional speakers. The StableSound feature eliminates the annoyance of normal program volume being followed immediately by extremely loud commercial messages or drastic volume fluctuations while changing channels.
Here's the full round-up of video and audio connections:
- Composite A/V: 2 (1 front)
- S-Video: 1
- Component Video: 1
- RF: 1
- Headphone: 1 (front)
Tech Talk
Component video (also called Y/Pb/Pr) features a three-jack video input, which provides separate connections for luminance (Y), blue color difference (PB) and red color difference (PR). This results in increased bandwidth for color information, resulting in a more accurate picture with clearer color reproduction and less bleeding than you would get with S-Video or composite (RCA yellow video plug) connections. You will need a separate RCA left/right audio cable for sound.
What's in the Box
Flat-screen HD-capable CRT TV, remote control (with batteries), printed operating instructions
