Re: using a tv as a monitor

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:31:02 +0100

Mark Gulliford wrote:

>can someone explain to me why using a tv as a monitor doesn't work that well
>as the picture is awful.

A TV set is built for displaying TV - until HDTV comes in that means 525
lines in the US - not all of which display, so the only computer
resolution you can use on one is 640x480. Which is about half what you
would have on a decent Computer monitor (and at that the bandwidth for
the TV signal is usually low enough to make things even worse) 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.DEL8.org (remove the DEL8 bit)

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