Zenith Color Console (1990)

[rwagoner]

I believe my CRT is a few years before the bad ones.

My understanding is that Zenith was one of the companies that developed HDTV ... so weird that they didn't survive. I guess it was the CRTs that did them in.

I guess I'll keep this around a while.

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I've been following this thread from the beginning, as I like Zenith equipment (audio gear as well as TVs, and I've had many Zenith TVs and stereo units over the years; I still have a Zenith 19" color set from 1995 that works as well as when it was new, though it doesn't get much use anymore since I replaced it with an HDTV, first a 19" and, later, a 32", the latter being the set I have and use now, some years ago), and am glad to see your 1990 Zenith is working as normal again. Sometimes all it takes is a few new parts to get the set back to normal.

Here's hoping your '90 Zenith keeps working as well as it does for quite a while. I don't know if your set has the infamous Zenith CRT that can and often does short after a few years (!), but from what I've read in your posts you haven't, thankfully, had any problems along those lines.

BTW, speaking of Zenith and HDTV, I think it was a darn shame Zenith went out of business when the company did. I can't help thinking they would have had great success with high-definition flat screens (LCD) today if they had stayed around. They did have a few plasma TVs just before they went out of business; however, I'm sure they would have done very well, as I said, with LCD flat panels. It makes me wonder why Zenith went out of business, as they seemed to be doing well right until the end. As much of a following as Zenith had (the company had been making radios and TVs, after all, since 1918), I thought they could keep going indefinitely. When I read of their demise I was amazed, to say the least.