Real quick question: What is a standard tv's resolution

[Mears]

Is it 640x480 or 800x600?

 

[yakko]

Good question.

 

[convex]

640x480

 

[nullshark]

Search results

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

Common television resolutions are NTSC (National Television Standards Committee, 525 scan lines at 30 frames per second for full motion that is used in Japan, North America, and some other counties), PAL (Phase Alternation by Line, 625 scan lines at 25 frames per second for full motion that is used in most of Western Europe, India, China, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Africa), SECAM (Systeme Electronique pour Couleur Avec Memoire, 625 scan lines at 25 frames per second for full motion that is used in France, Eastern Europe, and parts of Africa), and HDTV (High Definition Television, 1025 scan lines at 30 frames per second for full motion that is used in Japan for production and broadcast, and in the United States only for production).

Found here.

 

[geno]

I'll save you the look:

544 x 372

 

[Harvey]

<< 525 scan lines at 30 frames per second >>... of which you may see about 400 on a decent TV receiver. The aspect ration is 5:4, or 1.2:1, so you can do the math for the width.

Also, this is interlaced, displaying half of the lines in one scan and the other half in the second. The actual frame rate is (i think) fields/sec (i think), not 60, making the actual frame rate half of that number.

 

[johnjohn320]

So if I were to run a game on a TV, like a console game for instance, what resolution would that game be running at?

 

[KameLeon]

johnjohn320: 320x240 I think.. The newer ones like dreamcast run at higher res.

 

[jacobnero6918]

TV is 4:3 or 1.33 to 1 just like your computer monitor. The actually pixels that get displayed has alot to do with the quality of the TV. TV's aren't even VGA quality there lucky if they can put up 200,000 pixels. 525 scan lines and 30 frames a second are right but the 525 has some data with it so you won't get actual 525 lines. If you get over 400 that's pretty good.

 

[RevVveD1]

Interesting..