Toshiba Brings The Benefits Of Its ""Purely Flat"" FSTÆ Pureô Picture Tube To Smaller Screen Sizes

Company Debuts 20- And 24-Inch Color TVs Featuring Purely Flat Screens

20-Feb-01

At the 2001 CES, Toshiba expanded its line of ""purely flat"" FSTÆ Pureô color TVs, introducing its first smaller screen sets, the 20- and 24-inch models 20AF41 and 24AF41. All of Toshiba's FST Pure color TVs are designed as the ultimate high quality displays, utilizing the most advanced direct-view picture tubes the company has ever created.""Toshiba is committed to providing consumers more quality, value, and choice,"" noted Scott Ramirez, Assistant Vice President of Marketing. ""This ongoing commitment extends into our FST Pure flat lineup, which exhibits strength in both quality and diversity. The new 20- and 24-inch models are part of our total line of sixteen flat-screen sets, in seven different screen sizes, as well as both analog and HD-compatible formats. The direct-view TV segment is definitely moving toward flat-screen, and Toshiba's FST Pure is helping lead the way.""Toshiba's FST Pure flat-screen picture tube is the latest advancement in a long line of Toshiba direct-view picture tube breakthroughs, including Blackstripe, FST Black, and FST Perfect. Thanks to its improved screen geometry and advanced tube design, the FST Pure picture tube creates an image of unprecedented detail and color purity, with significantly less image distortion and glare than conventional screens. In addition, the perfectly flat screen offers viewers the widest possible viewing angle for maximum picture quality from virtually anywhere in the room. Toshiba's 20- and 24-inch FST Pure color TVs include a wide range of convenience and performance features. Both sets feature ColorStream component video inputs, as well as Advanced Velocity Scan Modulation and three-line digital comb filters for superior image quality.For enhanced audio enjoyment, both Toshiba FST Pure color TVs feature Stable Sound, a feature that automatically modulates unwanted increases in volume, ensuring that the audio levels remain constant during commercials or when a viewer is changing channels. In addition, the sets include innovative audio processing technology licensed by BBEô Audio that automatically corrects the phase delay and distortion generated by the speaker systems, ensuring natural, well-defined audio with maximum dialogue clarity.For added convenience, both FST Pure flat-screen TVs also include Toshiba's new glow universal remote control, which allows users to easily control a wide variety of additional home theatre components, as well as a new icon-based color trilingual on-screen display. 

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