I got the Zenith and am quite happy with it. Yes, the buttons on the remote are a bit small, but overall the performance is very good. It switches channels quicker than my LG HDTV tuner box and you can program it to skip sub-channels (which are typically weather radars).
The author of the linked article mentioned that the 16:9 mode that the Zenith has is not useful. I have to disagree. I have this hooked up to my 12-year-old Toshiba 4:3 CRT in my bedroom. I went online and found how to get into the "service mode" of the TV and squished its vertical size to approximate 16:9.
This also means the DVD player in the bedroom can also be set to 16:9 and get the extra 20% of vertical resolution. (A wide-screen movie has to drop out over 5th vertical line on a 4:3 TV to display in the correct aspect ratio. By forcing the TV into 16:9 mode, I get the full vertical resolution of the DVD.)
16:9 is usually broadcast anamorphically meaning the vertical lines are identical whether the TV is 4:3. However the set might be letterboxing 16:9 to make it fit a 4:3 set in which case I suppose you'd want to do it. I'm surprised though that it doesn't have a zoom feature to show the centre portion of the 16:9 image and forget the edges. EU boxes usually have such a feature, and mostly the edges just contain redundant information any way because shows would be framed for 4:3 & 16:9 so all the action would be in the centre portion.
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I got the Zenith and am quite happy with it. Yes, the buttons on the remote are a bit small, but overall the performance is very good. It switches channels quicker than my LG HDTV tuner box and you can program it to skip sub-channels (which are typically weather radars).
The author of the linked article mentioned that the 16:9 mode that the Zenith has is not useful. I have to disagree. I have this hooked up to my 12-year-old Toshiba 4:3 CRT in my bedroom. I went online and found how to get into the "service mode" of the TV and squished its vertical size to approximate 16:9.
This also means the DVD player in the bedroom can also be set to 16:9 and get the extra 20% of vertical resolution. (A wide-screen movie has to drop out over 5th vertical line on a 4:3 TV to display in the correct aspect ratio. By forcing the TV into 16:9 mode, I get the full vertical resolution of the DVD.)
16:9 is usually broadcast anamorphically meaning the vertical lines are identical whether the TV is 4:3. However the set might be letterboxing 16:9 to make it fit a 4:3 set in which case I suppose you'd want to do it. I'm surprised though that it doesn't have a zoom feature to show the centre portion of the 16:9 image and forget the edges. EU boxes usually have such a feature, and mostly the edges just contain redundant information any way because shows would be framed for 4:3 & 16:9 so all the action would be in the centre portion.