Zenith V3912W set

[RCAZenith]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

Yes, those rectangular particleboard Zenith's were available to the general public and many of them have provisions to add screw-on legs, turning them into a console.

My biggest issue with the '90's RCA's is the "tuner on board" that has the bad solder connections and the fact that if a component (often surface mount) fails inside the tuner, you are forced to repair it. All other brands used a separate tuner module and when something went wrong with the tuner, you simply replaced it. With that said, those RCA tuner problems were a big money maker for repair shops and besides those issues, they are good sets and the CRT's usually hold up well in them. If you see a '90's Zenith somewhere, you'd best leave it where you found it because the CRT is likely bad.

My parents had a Zenith 27" black plastic high end set with SVideo and possibly composite inputs that they had from 1997 to about 2010. I'll never forget coming home from college, flipping on a Walker Texas ranger marathon on a Saturday morning just to see the colors go screwy. I'm not sure if it was the CRT or some module inside of it. The running joke has been for years now that Chuck Norris killed the TV.

I primarily use the RCA inputs anyhow as it is a dedicated game machine. If the TV dies, my son has a 27" Funai in his room that I might just stuff in the case. Of course, that would probably go first!