>I was watching TV on an all-in-one PowerMac today at school. While the >video was filling the whole computer screen, it was obvious that the picture >wasn't 640X480, but looked more like pixel-doubled 320X240. This made it >very hard to read small text and make out details. I don't know if all TV >tuner cards work this way, but I would guess that if a PowerMac can only do >320X240, a 68K Mac probably wouldn't do any better.
This is not the Mac's fault. TV resolution is very low and at a very low refresh rate. There are two ways of going about stretching it onto a bigger screen res. One is pixel doubling (where one TV pixel is represented as a block of 4 pixels on the screen) and the other is interleaving. Either way it makes TV pictures look bad, and they get worse the higher the screen res you stretch them over. -- -- Mark Benson Any spelling errors are attributed to PEBKAC SilValleyPirate - AIM silicon_valley_pirate_uk - Yahoo! Visit Flat Pack Macs Online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> Macintosh LC Central -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
