Re: CRT TV as monitor working backwards

[KP <kjpmail@gmail.com>]

On Aug 13, 3:48 pm, KP <kjpm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2:19 am, Jerry <awande...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> > KP <kjpm...@gmail.com> writes:
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> > > What I'm using isn't a "monitor" per se--it's just a CRT TV with an
> > > RCA plug for composite video in.  Last night after posting here, I
> > > tried it again with some GS-specific software that uses the GS higher-
> > > end graphics modes.  It looked fantastic!  I just don't understand why
> > > graphics that are supposed to look beautiful only on an RGB monitor
> > > would display gloriously well on this composite screen, but text--that
> > > should look decent regardless of the screen--wouldn't.
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> > I'm curious what the IIgs Finder looks like on your TV, and perhaps some
> > of the text in 640-mode super-hires (like from the About dialog, for
> > example).
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> > Jerry    awanderin at yahoo dot ca
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> No fringe AT ALL when the color is disabled.  TINY bit of fringe when
> the color is on, but for all intents & purposes, it's utterly
> insignificant.  If every TV gave me this quality of display via
> composite-in then I would stop looking for ways to convert the RGB
> signal because it would basically amount to hair-splitting.
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> I was honestly shocked when I saw the results.  Running Arkanoid II,
> for example, you can't even tell that you're on a composite monitor
> rather than an RGB.  It's that good.

That's why this is so bizarre.  The IIgs modes that are supposed to be
terrible via composite look GREAT.  Whereas PLAIN 8-BIT TEXT looks
terrible unless I turn the color off.