Need suggestions for wireless keyboard/mouse & TV setup

[David P. Schwartz]

You can't put ten pounds of dirt into a five pound bag, and you can't get higher resolution out of a TV by feeding it a higher-res
signal.

The resolution on a regular TV is around 400x425.  It's ok for playing games and watching video, but text is going to suck unless you
want it to look like the old Commodore's and TRS-80s.  They managed 20 lines x 40 chars/line if I recall correctly.  Besides, TVs are
interlaced and you only get 30 full frames per second -- you could end up seeing a lot of flicker as things move around slowly.

-David

Matt Alexander wrote:

> I went to Fry's and picked up the Logitech Cordless Freedom Pro (keyboard
> and mouse, which work perfectly, with no driver dependencies).  I also
> found several external devices for sending my VGA output to a TV and
> picked up one that looked relatively decent.  Unfortunately, even at
> 640x480 with S-Video, the quality is horrible and text is almost
> completely unreadable.  So my next question is, has anyone had good luck
> with video cards under Linux that have S-Video output to a TV?  I'll go
> ahead and buy an internal card if it will drastically improve the quality,
> but if not then I'll have to give up on the TV idea and just buy an LCD
> screen to set on my coffee table instead.
> Thanks for your help.
> ~M