Improve the TV out ?

Question

Is there anyway i can improve the text when using TV out.
I understand that CRT tvs cannot produce exellent text but i m asking for basic/
Currently my TV out, the text is so blurred.

Answer 1

Hi,
The main limitation is to do with the bandwidth that the TV system allows - this is related to horizontal resolution.
TV resolution is sometimes measured in lines - which is the number of vertical black-and white lines you can fit across the width of the screen and still be able to resolve each line. A studio camera going direct to a monitor might achieve 800 lines, by the time you broadcast it and recieve it on your home TV sety it's down to about 500-600 lines, and if you record it on VHS tape it's somewhere around 200 (roughly, I can't remember the exact figures).
Colour resolution is worse, so if you had vertical green stripes on a red background, you might only resolve about 100 lines or so (NTSC is worse than PAL in this regard).
Anyway, as a rough guide, the maximum resolution you can get away with on TV out is 800x600, and even then you need larger fonts. Try using a font size of around 16-20 points, and BOLD (this increases the horizontal thickness so it stands a better chance of being seen - vertical thickness is also increased, but that's usually not a problem). Use a black or white font, and lightly saturated backgrounds (not too highly coloured) for best results.
Hope this helps.
Cheers