No, it's because you're looking at a TV screen, and TV sets just don't
have that good resolution. I was once on the front end of a two week
long business trip when the screen on my laptop computer went blank. I
took it in to a computer shop (this was back when there were real
computer shops and the computer was running DOS 6.1) and found that it
worked with an external monitor, just not with the built-in screen. So
I ordered one of those VGA-RF video adapters so that I could use the TV
set in the hotel room as a monitor for the computer.

No matter how I adjusted it and fiddled with resolution, text size, and
color scheme, text (which was all I was interested in seeing) was
always fuzzy and hard to read. I was able to keep up with e-mail but as
soon as I got home, I shipped the adapter back for a refund, telling
them that I just couldn't get usable resolution with it.

Although TV sets are better today than they were back then, you're
still fighting the same battle. The large monitors that look pretty
decent with a computer are the ones you see at trade shows, but they're
still in the $3,000 range.

Mike, you really don't know what you're talking about here, you were using a
standard TV, we're talking about the new digital TV's, BIG difference.
Sheesh... get some new technology :-)