Thread: Issues a plenty.. Maybe not..

Not sure about your first problem BUT to answer your second question...

You can't go wrong with ATI. I've used an ATI Radeon AIW PCI card in a past system and loved it. The DVD quality was top notch. Don't expect the text to be perfect using the composite out. It won't be. If you can find a display with S-video out (I haven't seen too many) you would get much better text readability.

Just my 2 Cents...

for those rca input screens you are gonna get awful looking text on a lcd or 27 inch tv. Its just the way ntsc works same with pal pretty much. If you want clear crisp text you NEED a vga screen.

Now there are ways to make the text look better. In your display properties up your text size to very large and change your accessability options to like contrast? It pretty much makes your screen viewable by blind people. I'm on a linux machine right now so i can't walk through the steps.

SO again changing a video card and a screen to another rca input screen will not solve the problem. Only way to do it is get a vga screen.

What resolution are you trying to run at?

You should be at most 800x600.. suggested is 640x480

at high resolutions you drop pixels.. TV is 640x480 (cheaper tvs may be less)

To get things to look good on a standard television, I recomend High contrast.. ie black and white looks the best.

You can use colors, but you'll have to play around. as far as solids and reading regular fonts in menus etc.. I've found that black background with white text provides the best results.

On my old tele It didn't matter what you did, it was always wretched

you can try like a vga to ntsc converter. You'd want one in like the 90-100 range though. Anything below that is garbage.