Open source, stand alone, ASCII terminal project

[Eric Smith]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Going through a modulator or direct video input?  With direct video, 
> an NTSC TV can probably do 80x24.
Maybe if it's a relatively late-model TV with a comb filter, though 
you're likely to get some smearing and artifacts even with that.  NTSC 
TVs simply aren't designed for that much luminance resolution.

On older NTSC TVs, there is a lowpass filter to remove the color carrier 
from the luminance, so even 40 column displays wind up fuzzy, and 80 
column are completely unreadable.