so was at my grandparents and they has a flat screen tv just about 2 cm's longer than my tube tv not much bigger other then that they are the exact same height

and i could actually read the stuff on the screen...

why is it on a tube tv the text is size 2

but on a wide screen flat tv the text size is 20 ?

you answered your own question... tube tv < flat screen

but why is this .-.

Because tube tv's are just horrible when it comes to displaying text, that's why subtitles are always so big. I play the game on a 40" TV (will be bigger soon) with a wireless Xbox gamepad on PC so I get the best gaming experience. This game is meant to played with a controller on your couch in front of a big TV.

Your flat screen shows more pixels than your tube tv, PS3 and Xbox360 is designed to show HD images, it not the image has to be scaled down, probably some other converting who hurt quality to.

That's the difference between a tube TV and HDTV. Tube TV is somethingx460 (i think?) HDTV is 1920x1080 pixels, so that's damn lot bigger resolution.

I remember playing PS3 games right after i getting my HDTV; "wait, that was text all along?"

with my tube tv i can barely read the subtiles ... but thats if i has my display settings set to normal if i set it to widescreen I can except everything looks tall n skinny ...

Skyrim is made for a High Definition, wide-screen television, and so are the subtitles. A tube tv has a much lower level of detail, meaning small letters like Skyrim's subtitles will get very smudgy.