While seeking something on the net (parts!!!!), I came upon this project,
The Uzebox Project, which I found to be quite interesting considering the whole project surrounds only two chips and a bunch of resistors. I guess the most interesting aspect of this unit, and probably what keeps the project cost down is the use of an interrupt driven kernel and which has no frame buffer. After watching a couple of supplied videos displaying the units capabilities I thought it was jam up. For you techies out there how are they achieving this level of output on very little amount of components?