punchy71 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Please rank the video image output of each Atari 8-bit machine from best model to the worst model (especially in terms of its text quality!). Feel free to elaborate why you think one particular model is better than another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 This topic's starting to feel like homework. The XE's are probably best out of the box. Atari kinda mangled the video circuits on the XL's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 The 800 has the best video quality, in general. So much depends on your monitor, how you connect (TV, composite or s-video), and how you terminate the signal. Bob Please rank the video image output of each Atari 8-bit machine from best model to the worst model (especially in terms of its text quality!). Feel free to elaborate why you think one particular model is better than another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 The way I see it, through RF at least: 400/800 "warm" feeling picture although not great focus, good colour representation, good saturation and low interference. XL - better focus, colour representation not quite as good, low/medium interference. XE - probably sharpest focus, colour representation and saturation maybe a little less than XL, seems more prone to interference (mostly from inside the machine itself). But it varies. One of my XEGS has great video, the other one is kinda ordinary. Some XEs generate more annoying clock/refresh based interference than others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fres Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Another subjective topic. Every XE I've ever used has had superior video to any XL or 400/800 I've used. I've used maybe 20-25 total machines ... most were XEs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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