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- From: dale@bilbo.heurikon.com (Dale Wade)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: Re: Buying a new TV..which brand NOT to get?
- Message-ID: <1991@heurikon.heurikon.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:31:48 GMT
- References: <92357.084314SJSBH@CUNYVM.BITNET> <1992Dec22.211833.13770@news.stolaf.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec22.211833.13770@news.stolaf.edu> nstehle@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Nathan W Stehle) writes:
- >In article <92357.084314SJSBH@CUNYVM.BITNET> <SJSBH@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- >> Recently I read an article about a Zenith TV not working with a Genesis.
- >>A friend of mine has a Zenith also (not too sure of year) and his SNES does
- >>not work. [...]
- >>
- >Well... It seems Zenith is a bad choice. We have a TV called an LXI. It's
- >the brand Sears sells as their own. We have been unable to get the SNES
- >to work on it. It kind of sucks, because it will keep me from ever getting
- >one. I have been thinking about it too! Why do the colors get so torqued?
- >
- >Nathan
-
-
- Hmm. I have a Zenith 27" TV (about 3 years old now, but it looks like they
- are still selling the same or a similar model) and my SNES works just fine with
- any of the various inputs (RF, RCA, S connector). The only compatability
- problem that I had was with the menus from my Mitsubishi VCR. The TV wasn't
- able to lock the verticle hold when a menu was displayed. The only thing
- visually obvious about the VCR's menus was that they were a very saturated
- blue. I searched for a solution (i.e. spent lots of time on the phone with
- Zenith and Mitsubishi's customer support) and finally found out about the
- "hidden" menus available to the service techs on the Zenith, accessable by
- holding down three keys at the same time (menu, channel down and volume down,
- or something similar, email me if you really need to know and I'll go home
- and find the combo). They had a VFORCED option (whatever that is), that
- somehow alters the way verticle hold is established. When turned on my menus
- stopped scrolling. I still don't know the underlying cause of the problem
- or the solution, which somewhat nags at the back of my mind, but at least
- things work now.
-
- I wonder if this has any bearing on the problems that others are experiencing
- with the SNES and if other TVs have a similar option (now that I think of it,
- because I had the VCR before the SNES, I've never actually tried the SNES
- without VFORCED on). I would be that at least the other Zenith's would have
- this adjustment.
-
-
- -Dale
-