RE: OT TV Out Graphics cards

[Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx>:

>
> Taking PC graphics into a TV by UHF will be *REALLY* pants - remember
> what a BBC micro looked like if you tried to do Mode 0 (80 column
text)
> on a TV and you'll get the idea. (UHF = lowest quality signal format
> that's out there.)
>
> PC graphics, TVs and "decent quality" do not go hand in hand
I'm
> afraid...
>

Whereas BBC via a SCART was actually quite good but not as good as a
Microvitec
monitor.

To get an idea of how pants a UHF feed will be, think about how washed out
and
fuzzy the TV looks when they are showing rolling CeeFax pages on BBC2
compared
to how crisp it looks when you are using Teletext properly.

A TVout wont be quite that good unless you can find a card that does RGBout
rather than S-Video. The secret to getting a useable PC display on a TV is
not
to try to display too small a font or too high a resolution.


Keith

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