Re: Is it at all possible?

From: Gerrit Heitsch <*gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de*> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:02:23 +0100 Message-ID: <1910c0a8-cd9a-c632-742d-3f1cbbd06115@laosinh.s.bawue.de> · gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de

On 02/20/2017 01:32 PM, smf wrote:
> On 20/02/2017 10:41, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote:
>> The "dust" he writes about applies to my understanding only to the
>> "modern plasma TV" he used and which I expect does bad job handling
>> off specs signals.
>
> Old tv's are blurry and uses anlogue processing. Plasma TV's have
> crisper pixels & depending on the TV and how it's setup could have less
> than 8 bits of colour resolution per channel. This makes irregularities
> in the video signal more visible, which is especially worse if the
> plasma TV has a much larger screen size.

Especially if you use S-Video and the Luma signal is not completly clean 
but contains traced of Chroma. Also, some Displays get confused by the 
Chroma signal from the C64, for those you need to add a 300 Ohm series 
resistor to the Chroma line.

  Gerrit

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