Price Paid:  $117.00 from eBay

Summary:
I'm a video professional, used to seeing my work on Barco, Sony and Ikegami studio monitors. In short, I know how to assess quality in a monitor.

I first tumbled onto the quality of Toshiba TVs around 10 years ago when, after comparing 32" TV extensively, I bought a Toshiba over a Sony - my original intended choice. (That set is now living at a friend's house, still happily in use.)

I replaced it as my main living room TV with a 36" Toshiba about four years ago, with which I've been very pleased.

For my home office (where I spend most of my time, with a viewing distance of around five feet), I decided to replace a 13" Sony with something larger. My first purchase was a cheap Apex 20", which wasn't bad, but had noticable horizontal distortion and seemed noisy (it was, however, very inexpensive). After a couple of months, I decided to replace it, and started watching eBay for a flat-screen Toshiba.

I ended up purchasing a refurbished 20AF41 with a 90-day Toshiba warrantee for only $117.50 plus shipping.

This set is outstanding! The picture quality is superb, and the BBE sound is wonderful. It's got ins and outs up the wazoo, and I have it connected to my digital cable box via the composite A/V connectors. Pictures are sharp and clean.

Hooking it up to my 3-chip camcorder via the S-Video connector produces incredible results.

Others have mentioned geometric distortion, but I haven't seen this. The service menu procedures previously posted give me confidence that I can deal with this should I notice a problem.

Bottom line: I'm a very happy camper with this set, and would highly recommend it.(

Strengths:
Picture quality
Inputs and outputs
Sound quality with BBE enabled§

Weaknesses:
Doesn't switch on closed captions when muted
"MUTE" displays continuously during mute, which can burn into screen

Similar Products Used:
Toshiba 36" TV (living room)
Sharp 27" TV (bedroom)
Apex 20" TV (replaced by the Toshiba)

Price Paid:  $329.00 from Future Shop

Summary:
Purchased the tv for my bedroom so I didn't want to spend a pile of money. After checking out the reviews here I decided on this tv and am very pleased with it. I was previously a "hitachi" man but the 20" I had was slowly dying after having served me well. The Toshiba has a good picture and sound, varied connections and the price was right. I returned the first one I bought though due to a annoying "buzzing" sound from the tube. Liked the tv enough to try a second one and have no problem with this one

Strengths:
Good picture and sound. Varied hook ups. PRICE!

Weaknesses:
First one had a "buzz" in the tube, otherwise none

Similar Products Used:
Hitachi 20"

Price Paid:  $299.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
Remote buttons fall off and Toshiba customer service stinks. After 4 months of calls to customer service, and countless promises that it would be replaced, I finally gave up and bought another remote from Best Buy for $21 + tax & S/H, best $30 bucks I’ve spent on this TV. Of special interest is Derrick Thompson, a service manager for Toshiba, who, after 4 months of my waiting for a replacement remote, said they’d send me a universal remote, but it probably wouldn’t work. Then he got real snotty and said that Toshiba’s service plan does not state when the problem would be fixed, just that they would fix the problem! Based on this experience, I’ll never buy from Toshiba again. Be warned, their service people stink.

Strengths:
Good picture & great sound.

Weaknesses:
Customer service stinks. Remote very cheap and falls apart.

Similar Products Used:
27" Sony, 20" Samsung

Price Paid:  $285.00 from HH Gregg

Summary:
Great picture outweighs the few weaknesses. Can't beat it for the price.

Strengths:
Picture - High contrast, good color and very sharp.
Geometric distortion seems quite low to me.
Good price.

Weaknesses:
Remote is a little too directional sensitive.
Menu button should not be centered between channel up/down - too easy to hit.
Sound is just OK.

Similar Products Used:
None

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
A lot of you are probably saying Thank gosh... something I can really afford. I just don't want you to believe that you're shorting yourself if you have a reasonable budget. And I would call $450.00 reasonable for a television.

This Toshiba is a solid, straightforward model. Plus, I like Toshiba TVs in general. I had one for years and it was strong until I finally upgraded.

A 24-inch set is big enough to get involved in the action but still small enough to fit a small room, i.e. dorm. The 4:3 screen makes the most of most current games, though you'll have to live with black bars for widescreen viewing. And don't forget that this model has a totally flat tube.

While it can't handle a progressive image, there are still plenty of high-end connections: one component in, two S-video (one front, one rear), and three composite (one front, two rear). The component input is effective even without the progressive scan; it offers the most signal separation.

And as you're hooking up your GameCube, you can remind yourself that Xbox fans paid this much for their console bundle.

Strengths:
Better contrast and brightness than a VGA pc monitor.vivid color,geometry,
better than JVC and Sony.Good price.

Similar Products Used:
Panasonic Tau
Samsung Dynaflat