Newer Zenith console?

[zeno]

Originally Posted by Console User

Someone told me one time that Zenith CRT's didn't have the best of picture tubes in them? The 1991 Model we have has alot darker picture than any of our other sets we have had. What can you say about the 1991 Zenith CRT? The one we have is still the original one in it. I hope it holds out .

If its been dark for a long time I dont think its the jug.
RTVnut sums it up well but I will add a few things. We were one
of the biggest mom & pop Zenith dealers in E. New England. I
would guess about 20% of the CRT's were good & had a long life.
When one was bad Zenith replaced them out to 5 yrs for free
or at a discount. Depended on how much a set costs and other factors.
We never heard what went wrong. There was never an answer
at seminars from the Chicago folks just "we are fixing it". In
the mid 90's when we all but stopped selling Zenith & built up
our Sony sales. Most of our Zenith sales were to old folk then,
many had been Zenith all there life & would take nothing else.
Sonys had problems to, as did everyone else. Everything was
getting cheaper, more complex & parts were getting discontinued
after 3-4 yrs. Garbage from China was showing up more & more
in brand name sets. Reliability & repairability were plummeting.
Bottom line is play it safe & avoid Zenith from 1990 on &
anything else 1995 on. The era of quality was OVER.


73 Zeno