Re: 80-column text display on TV set

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Steve Nickolas <uNsOoStPsAuMkSi@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Kim Heui Jung wrote:
>> I'm looking for the TV set has composite port working Apple IIe.
>> But I don't know it is suitable to display 80-col. text from AppleWorks.
>> Is big TV better than small for 80-col. text?
> 
> It's unlikely that you will get clear text on any TV, but possibly.

It was possible, on internal versions of early boxes, to get an 80-column
telnet window on WebTV devices.  The video hardware in a WebTV box is good
enough that the output was easily readable.  The video coming out of an
Apple II isn't as good though, so it's going to be a little painful to
read, but it should be better than it was 25 years ago since you don't
have to go through a leaky RF modulator for modern TVs.

The size of the TV won't matter much, though a plasma or LCD projector
might get you a crisper image than a CRT-based set (many of them can do
VGA resolution quite well).  Sort of expensive for a monitor.

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