Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster

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Samuel Fuller said:
S-Video is twice as sharp as composite, 480i vs 240i, so text would be ok above a certain font size.
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Both are 480i and have the same vertical sharpness (240 lines per field). It's just the comb filter used to clean up the extracted color subcarrier on the composite signal causes significant horizontal resolution limits, usually you can't resolve more than 300 distinct dots per line with composite but can go as high as 700 with a good svideo setup because the color info is carried on a separate wire and doesn't need the comb filter. In practice a CRT's shadow mask would limit what can be resolved anyway, it's unusual to see higher than 450TVL in consumer CRTs.
 
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