Toshiba 24AF42 24" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen
regulation problems
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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.)  <br />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.