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>due to VGA Notably, the OG VGA card from IBM could already do 640×480 with 16 colors and 720x400 in text mode.

• cubefox 5d ago
  And TVs supported 480i and later 480p. It was only the old consoles that ran at considerably lower resolution.
  • mrob 5d ago
    480p ("EDTV") wasn't very common. Most people upgraded directly from SDTV to HDTV.