2 Dec
2008
2 Dec
'08
6:37 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Going through a modulator or direct video input? With
direct video,
an NTSC TV can probably do 80x24.
Maybe if it's a relatively late-model TV with
a comb filter, though
you're likely to get some smearing and artifacts even with that. NTSC
TVs simply aren't designed for that much luminance resolution.
On older NTSC TVs, there is a lowpass filter to remove the color carrier
from the luminance, so even 40 column displays wind up
fuzzy, and 80
column are completely unreadable.