PS2 Finding 60hz CRTs in a PAL Country

[Agent Smith]

Hey everyone, I want to play PS2 games on a CRT because I want the authentic experience but here are the issues.

I live in Ireland and I have searched on different listing sites and cannot find any good CRT, there's only 1-3 listings in total and they are vintage/not suited really for gaming, so I guess they are pretty much dead here.

Second thing is that I want to play PS2 games in 60hz so I want to find a 60hz CRT which is going to be even more difficult in a PAL country I think.

So what I'm asking for are suggestions on different ways of finding these CRTs and maybe even how I can find them for free.

Thanks for any help

 

[bucanero]

try to look for CRTs that say PAL/NTSC compatible, if the TV model supports NTSC, then it supports 60hz.

 

[jolek]

If you want to have a NTSC TV you have to have a transformer because most (if not all) 60 Hz TVs require 100\110V 60 Hz AC.

In PAL regions grid has 220\230 V 50 Hz AC.

Anyway from what I remember if a TV has a real RGB SCART input than it should also support PAL\NTSC input signal (through this input):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART.

Sometimes there were also CRT TVs with a component input but they were rare.

So in short if a PAL TV has a SCART or component input then it should also support PAL\NTSC signal through these inputs.
Unfortunately through composite there will be only a black and white image.

 

[mimi]

TVs from mid-late 90s, specially from late 90s should support both 60hz via RGB scart, and NTSC mode - composite, svideo.

If TV doesn't support NTSC colour system it doesn't mean it won't run 60hz via RGB scart.

or hunt down a plasma tv with native res of 852x480. or 1024x768 (non square pixels as ps2 output).

 

[jolek]

Sending a 60Hz (NTSC) composite signal to a PAL display typically results in a black-and-white image, rolling picture, or no signal at all,
as PAL natively expects 50Hz and different color subcarrier frequencies.

Spoiler: More info

Color Issues: A standard 60Hz NTSC composite signal sends color information on a 3.58MHz subcarrier, while PAL expects 4.43MHz.
The mismatch causes black-and-white video.
Vertical Sync Issues: A 60Hz signal may cause the picture to scroll vertically if the PAL TV cannot adjust its refresh rate.

While some late-era PAL TVs support 60Hz, they usually require an RGB or specific PAL60/NTSC signal to display color correctly.
If the TV supports it, using a SCART cable with RGB signals completely bypasses the color encoding issue, allowing 60Hz to display in full color.

So it can be a lottery with a composite that is why I always suggest to look for a TV with a component or SCART (RBG) input.

Another note is that I never had a CRT TV that supports NTSC signal through composite (even when I bought\had one from ~1999\2000).

 

[bucanero]

Another note is that I never had a CRT TV that supports NTSC signal through composite (even when I bought\had one from ~1999\2000).

here in Argentina (and some other countries in Latin America, like Brazil, Paraguay, etc), all TVs from the 90s supported NTSC signal thru composite (the classic RCA connectors, yellow/red/white) even when the TV signal was PAL.
For example DVD players used NTSC and region 4, and you would just connect them to the same CRT TV and it would work fine. So all those TVs had PAL/NTSC auto-detection and would switch as needed. It was really messy around here, Argentina originally used NTSC, then for color TV they went with PAL-N (Brazil used PAL-M), then for the DVD era NTSC again. Even worse, the Argentinian PAL-N is not like standard PAL-N, but something adjusted to be backward compatible with old NTSC TVs, so it's actually "PAL-NC"