MEGAPC 180 and regular PAL RGB TV

Hi, I was wondering if I can make the desktop in winXP readable on an ordinary RGB TV? Yet no monitor is installed, just a RGB TV. It is connected via the SVHS TV-Out connector to a SCART and at least all colours are shown, but it wont let me go lower than a 800x600 resolution.
I am aware this is not a typical megapc180 issue, but I am sure other people are interested in this too so they won't need a monitor.
My goal is to make at least the desktop readable so I can properly read the contents of MSI's MegaCenter III on my TVscreen. I do not use the megapc for games, for me it is especially for recording and viewing dvd's (divx, etc.).

Hi,
800x600 is generally the highest resolution that can be used for TV out.
A TV set doesn't have enough horizontal resolution for more than about 800 pixels across, and even then under best conditions. The vertical resoultion depends on the TV standard, and is around 600 lines for PAL and 500 for NTSC.
If you find you can't read icon labels, etc. at 800x600, try increasing the font sizes - If using Windoze, right click on the desktop, select Properties -> Appearance and either look in the Schemes list and select one of the Large schemes, or work through the Item list, and increase font sizes where you can.
Incidentally, "RGB" implies separate connections of the Red, Green and Blue signals from the PC to the TV - which is fairly rare. A computer monitor has an RGB connection, but a TV usually doesn't. You are using "SVHS", aka "S-Video", or more technically "Y/C" to connect to your TV. This involves two signals, a "Y", or luminance, or black-and-white signal (roughly 33% Red + 50% Green + 17% Blue), and the "C" or Chrominance (Colour) signal, which is actually made up of two components, R-Y and B-Y. The TV has to separate the C signal back to the R-Y and B-Y, then matrix them with the Y signal to get back to the R, G and B signals. There will inevitably be some losses and errors in the encoding, decoding process; also the badwidth (relates to resolution) of the R-Y and B-Y signals needs to be limited before encoding, so you tend to lose fine colour detail. Still, at least it's not as bad as Composite video, where the Y and C components are combined into one signal, which have to be separated by the TV set back into Y and C before further processing. And it's even worse if your TV doesn't have an A/V input, and you have to use a VCR to modulate it onto a TV channel (RF Out), which must then be demodulated by the TV back to composite video before further processing! (I've left out discussion of synchronising pulses for simplicity).
Just a bit of background information for you, the test is on Thursday  
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