24x80 Standard? (was: Re: HX20)

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Dec 14 14:09:32 1998

At 07:59 PM 12/14/98 -0000, Eric Smith wrote:
>
>No. I've seen 64-column text on typical mid-70s NTSC televisions, and it was
>abysmal. The televisions had to be modified to remove their color trap
>in order to get reasonably sharp characters.

I remember when the Amiga was first launched, its composite output
was purported to be able to drive 80 columns on an ordinary TV.
Was it a matter of televisions improving in the same time period,
or that they might've been talking about monochrome as opposed to
color? Certainly NTSC color has a hard time changing quickly, its
resolution is only a hundred or so lines across, isn't it, while
gray-scale resolution is as much four or five times that?

- John
Received on Mon Dec 14 1998 - 14:09:32 GMT