Jagged Graphics

Why are the graphics jagged?

It's because the text and graphics are actually bitmaps, they're not "fonts" actually, they're made of pixels. The dimensions of CD+G graphics are 300 x 216. You'll notice that's very, very small. Now, when you display this on a "Standard Def" TV, the pixels are doubled so you get 600 x 432, but it still looks pretty good. The "problem" is when you view the graphics on a computer monitor or HDTV where you've got orders of magnitude more pixels to go around. Your original graphic is 300 x 216, so you have to STRETCH that to fill in more pixels. You know what happens when you zoom in to pixels? You get jaggies. Now I *could* do a bicubic smoothing on them, but that will only look marginally better:

Eventually I'll turn on smoothing but right now it's a performance loss for many people, that is why it is off by default.