Product Description

As your source for digital home entertainment, Toshiba offers one of the most extensive television lineups in the industry. Whether you're looking for the latest in HDTV, the flattest FST Pure flat-screen TVs, or the highest quality in portable televisions, Toshiba has what you want.PRODUCT FEATURES:13" Blackstripe II Picture Tube delivers a superior picture in a portable and practical small cabinet;Glow TV remote for ease of use in low light situations;All Toshiba televisions comply with current V-Chip regulations. Violent or sexually explicit programming can be identified and blocked, prohibiting viewing by young children;181 Channel Tuner provides access to all channels on unscrambled cable systems;Front Firing Speakers provide clean unobstructed sound;Front Panel A/V Input allows easy connection of video game or camcorder directly to the front of the set;Headphone Jack - for a private viewing and listening experience;Off Timer allows the viewer to set the television to shut off automatically after a preset amount of time;Channel Lock - selected channels can be locked out to prevent viewing. Channels can be unlocked by entering a secret code.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82531 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Toshiba
• Model: 13A23
• Dimensions: 12.60" h x 14.30" w x 14.20" l, 20.90 pounds
• Display size: 13

Features

• 13-inch CRT set with standard 4:3 aspect ratio and headphone jack; 14.25 x 12.5 x 14.25 inches (W x H x D)
• V-Chip parental control, channel lock, video lock, and GameTimer help manage kids' use
• Front AV input accommodates a DVD player, digital camera, camcorder, or gaming console
• Sleep timer saves power by shutting down the set after you've nodded off
• Includes 181-channel NTSC tuner and glow-in-the-dark remote control

Amazon.com Product Description
Toshiba's affordable and--at a mere 21 pounds--eminently moveable 13A23 is perfect for the bedroom, kitchen, or kids' room--it even features extensive parental controls like V-Chip, channel lock, video lock, and GameTimer. And if falling asleep in front of the tube is your thing, you'll appreciate the sleep timer, which shuts the unit off after a predetermined duration. The 13-inch monaural set uses Toshiba's acclaimed Blackstripe II picture tube for clear, high-contrast images.

Standard RF and composite-video inputs accommodate all DVD players and most other video sources, while a set of front AV inputs fosters easy connection with a camcorder, DVD player, or gaming console. The 13A23 also features a trilingual onscreen display, a sleep timer, channel return, noise muting, a glow-in-the-dark remote control, and a headphone jack for private listening.

What's in the Box
Television, remote control, batteries, user's manual, warranty information.

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Customer Reviews

Excellent value, good picture quality
First, I should mention that I have not seen any of the other TVs in this price range and size range. This TV replaced a 25-year old TV the same size (which still works), which I use next to my PC. (I also have a modern set in the living room and have used a variety of 19 inch TVs in hotel rooms.)

I'm quite pleased with the performance of this TV. The color rendition is excellent - I'm sure that this aspect of the performance is as good as you can get in this price range and comes close to more expensive sets.

The detail and clarity are good, but do represent the limitation of what you can get in a low-priced set. I'm sure the high end 13-inch sets that cost about twice as much would give better resolution, and a flat screen would provide that life-like, three-dimensional quality that I see in my living room TV.

If there is any flaw in the picture of this set, it is the *slight* "buzzy" quality to the image. If you visualize the difference between a scene lit by fluorescent lighting and one lit by incandescent lighting, then you understand what I mean. But again, it is slight and undoubtedly found in most or all sets in this price range.

The sound on this set is cleverly engineered. The amplifier has very little power, due to the cost limitations, and the speaker is small, due to the small size of the TV. So, Toshiba engineered the sound to have great clarity. Speech is very intelligible, and music is clearly heard, although far from impressive or loud. The result is entirely adequate for the usual living room/office/bedroom use - if you are going to use this to view movies in your (small) living room (or dorm room), get one of the sets costing about twice as much instead.

NOTE: In order to get a good picture with this set, you are going to need to turn down a lot of the settings (which is not unusual - factory settings are solely designed to make the set stand out in showroom lineups). I had to turn the sharpness down to zero, and even then, I think that I would like to have it yet lower than that (to help with the "buzzy" quality). I also had to turn down the contrast setting to "8", although I sit close to the set and so need this a little lower than if I were sitting across the room - but even then the setting would need to be significantly lower than the factory setting.