Re: Vizio question

On Wed, 21 May 2008 18:17:28 -0700 Paul Hovnanian P.E. <paul@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
|> 
|> On Tue, 06 May 2008 17:56:15 GMT Bob Rudd <bobrudd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
|> 
|> | We're considering a 1080p 42 or 47 inch Vizio model.  Any opinions
and
|> | help you could provide us, would be greatly appreciated.
|> 
|> My brother's 32" 768p Vizio is now 10 months in use and still works as
it did
|> when it first arrived.  One glitch: the "zoom" feature never worked
regardless
|> of video mode.  So when a TV station/network gets dumb and pillarboxes
video
|> that is already letterboxed from 16:9 into 4:3, just to get it into
their HD
|> video stream, it will have black all the way around ("pilletter boxed"
is the
|> term I use for this) and it can't be zoomed to the full size of the
screen
|> (even though at this point the transmitted video has less than SD
quality).
| 
| Bad button on the remote?

I went to a CC stor a few months back when I noticed that problem and
tried
an exactly same model of Vizio there.  Zoom did not work on that model. 
None
of the sales droids had any idea if it should work or not.

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