I have an old Casio one, and it sucks... at least as a TV. But then, for what I expected from it, its actually really good... if that makes sense. I had low expectations when I bought it years ago, what I wanted it for was to kill time while sitting in a car in a parking lot for 12 hours a day. For that, it worked great. But, it was about the level I expected... crappy resolution, tiny screen, and almost no reception. Its a 2.5" screen model, and if that is the size you are looking at, then I don't think there is any way you can use it for a computer. You can't make out any real details on the TV, so I would expect that you won't be able to read jack squat as a computer screen. Also, every time I turn the Casio on, it starts the tuning of the channels back at the begining, and there is no way to fine tune a channel. You press the channel up or down buttons and it scrolls until it finds something other than static then stops. You get whatever it deems a channel, and nothing more. BUT, I have also used a portable LCD screen that was meant for a Playstation and the likes. This doesn't have a TV tuner, and is a 5" screen with MUCH better resolution. It uses standard NTSC composite input for video (RCA connector), and RCA connectors for Audio. I have it hooked up as the monitoring screen for a closed circuit video recording system. I personally have been rather impressed with it considering I bought it new for $60. VCR on screen displays are fully readable on it, so I would think your 32 characters per line would be fine (I've never counted, but my guess is the VCR OSD text is at least 32 cpl). The only downside I can see is this screen doesn't accept battery power. It does have a power pass thru that lets you piggy back it to the game system it was designed for (which I think was actually a Dreamcast, but I don't recall). And it came with a 12 volt car adaptor for powering the screen and game system. I know when I bought it, there were other models, and IIRC there were some that took batteries. I bought mine specifically because it fit the exact needs I had for it, and battery power wasn't one of the items on my list. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>