Toshiba 20AF44 20" FST Pure Flat Color TV with Stereo Sound
First Quality TV, Jaw Dropping Price
I ordered received this Toshiba on 5/17 via UPS and it has the best picture I've ever seen on a 20 inch television. The manufacturer's specifications on the Toshiba site say the tube has an invar shadow mask, which is only found on the best tv's and is  never found on sets selling at this price. The jack asssortment included is more than is found on many 27 and 32 sets. <br />Sound also is superb. I'm stumped by Robert Stewart's negative comments on his set. There's no buzz on my sample and the picture, as I said, is first rate. Perhaps he's got a line-noise problem with the his power source or one of the devices he has hooked up to the tv. If not, remember that sample defects like the ones he mentions can happen even with store-bought tv's, though in the latter case, making an exchange is a lot more straightforward.<br />The manual that came with this Toshiba is the best written and most thorough I've seen on an appliance in years, even perhaps a little too exhaustive ....like the complicated-looking remote, it might daunt some folks who like simplicity in their electronic gadgets. But both the manual and the remote are only as complicated as the set is versatile.<br />The lack of a TV/Video button on the front of  set itself is a bit unusual, but a minor inconvenience, and it isn't true, as another poster writes in these reviews, that &quot;you are out of luck&quot; if you lose the Toshiba remote: Any programmable remote you can buy in a store will operate this tv, including the TV/Video function -- I've programmed a store-bought remote to work with this tv and it works all the basic functions, including TV/Video function fine.<BR>Also, Toshiba offers replacement remotes for the AF series of tube tv's on its site under &quot;accessories&quot; for $10 each. <br />Tip: the price next to the image on this page of the Toshiba 20AF44  tv is $176.95 and seems to be an  Office Depot offer . Check the &quot;8 used or new&quot; link, lower left of the picture of the Toshiba 20AF44 on this page for other, possibly better, offers, one of which may eliminate shipping as well as local tax.