help with Zenith IQB36B44W !?
05-10-00, 03:40 AM
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I've been looking into a possible good deal on one of Zenith's top of the line models (IQB36B44W). I know Zenith hasn't been up to par int he past but they seem to be makign a decent come back and their upper end models should be fairly good, I have heard a lot of praise for the flat screens. However, in researching this tv I haven't been able to find enough info to make me go out and buy this thing right away. It has a msrp of 1.5k and usually sells for 1.1-1.2k which is up there in price, but I can't seem to find exacrtly why it is priced so closely to say, a WEGA or simialr toshiba product... I do see a lot of pfeatures int his model, which is nice but what really concerns me is the picture, thats it 
I could care less about the bells and whistles. Anyways my big questiosn are, can this tv use 480P by chance? It is lsited as a SDTV ... which I'm not sure where that runs in regards to a DTV, it does have a comb filter and componet inputs. I guess I am pretty much confused with how they are representing the features that I'm havign a hard time reading the bottom line. I also compared the flat screen and this model and they both have the same basic features including 800 lines of resolution (hor), but I've heard its possible for the flat screen series to do the anamorphic squeeze when you get into the service mode. So that brings me to wonder if you can do the same with the set I'm looking at too. As you can tell in the excitement of the tv I ended up confusing myself and need some help getting set straight again, if anyone has this set or soemthign similar or can just give me some info I would very much appreciate it
Thanks for the help in advance!!
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I could care less about the bells and whistles. Anyways my big questiosn are, can this tv use 480P by chance? It is lsited as a SDTV ... which I'm not sure where that runs in regards to a DTV, it does have a comb filter and componet inputs. I guess I am pretty much confused with how they are representing the features that I'm havign a hard time reading the bottom line. I also compared the flat screen and this model and they both have the same basic features including 800 lines of resolution (hor), but I've heard its possible for the flat screen series to do the anamorphic squeeze when you get into the service mode. So that brings me to wonder if you can do the same with the set I'm looking at too. As you can tell in the excitement of the tv I ended up confusing myself and need some help getting set straight again, if anyone has this set or soemthign similar or can just give me some info I would very much appreciate it Thanks for the help in advance!!
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05-11-00, 01:54 AM
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? do you play video games at all,becuase zenith tvs(even new ones)can't play playstation and few other obscure systems correctly.Something to keep in mind,unless zenith finally decided to make there tv's with the chip that enables this.As of 6 months ago they still did not.
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