I've kept my old XBox primarily as a DVD player for all of my Region 1 DVDs, but its dying a slow death and needs replacing. I'm considering getting a PS3 when I'm stateside next, but I also figured I ...

Odd one. There is a slight chance that the Zenith identifies it as region 0 (Region 0 is a neutral setting that all players should accept, but that method isn't the most used region-free setting) ...