Improving TV display

This isn't really Front Row specific but I don't know where to post it and I assume that people here will have the best answers due to the intended uses of Front Row. I have an iMac hooked up to a 55" Sony HDTV. Front Row looks pretty good on it so that isn't a problem. However, when trying to do something like browse the web the display is far from optimum and rather difficult to read. I've fooled around a little with different display options through System Preferences to no avail. Is there a way to improve the display quality for the uses outside of Front Row?
Thanks.

Compared to a computer monitor, TVs have very low resolution. A normal TV is 768x576 for PAL and 640x480 for NTSC. Even HD TV is not that high resolution for its size. The best quality HD TV is 1920x1080 which is about the same resolution as a 20" iMac. But it's a whole lot bigger. An iMac has a screen resolution of about 100ppi. Your 55" HD TV, by comparison, has a resolution of about 40ppi (assuming its 1080i/p). Thus, the text may look a whole lot jaggier. They are also geberally designed to display interlaced images rather than progressive scan images which can also affect the perceived quality of static text.
Notwithstanding that, there are another couple of reasons it may not look good. The most dramatic would be using an analogue connection (like composite plugs or S-Video plugs) to connect your TV to your iMac. Use a digital connection if you can. If you are using a digital connection through a DVI port check that your TV resolution is set to 1920x1080 (assuming you have a 1080i set) through the Display control panel. If it is set to a different resolution you will likely get inferior quality results.
But at the end of the day, your TV is designed to display movies (or equivalent) and it will do a very good job at that. It is not designed to display static text and so will be correspondingly worse at doing that. Horses for courses.

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I figured IPS is not going to happen this year, but as the new T420 and T420s is 16:9 compared to last years T410 and T410s and the T400 and T400s before that 16:10 screens there must be some new panels coming this time around?
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