rhindlethereddragon #1 Posted November 5, 2010 I'm very happy to discover that, apparantly, my Telivision will display any Atari 2600 game I throw at it - including PAL games (that wouldn't play on my other TV Sets!!). I'm ready to delve into PAL collecting. I need some help compiling a list of PAL (only) games to look out for. If it's even remotely cool, I want it. Keep in mind, I get immense pleasure out of even the FROGGO games.. Thanks for the help. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas Jentzsch #2 Posted November 5, 2010 I'm very happy to discover that, apparantly, my Telivision will display any Atari 2600 game I throw at it - including PAL games (that wouldn't play on my other TV Sets!!). Actually I would be surprised, if any modern TV wouldn't support both frame rates (50 and 60 Hz). The signal your TV is displaying is 50 Hz NTSC (assuming your console is NTSC) with wrong colors. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
homerwannabee #3 Posted November 5, 2010 Funny, I am the exact opposite. I have a "MAGIC TV" because it can separate PAL from NTSC. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OldAtarian #4 Posted November 5, 2010 (edited) I would think any modern television would be capable of displaying 540i (PAL) since they are all pretty much capable of displaying resolutions greater than that now. NTSC was 480i, so would not have had enough scanlines available to display PAL correctly in addition to being the wrong frequency. TV's are global now. They don't have to worry about local standards anymore. It's up to the broadcasters to conform to the television makers standards now and not for the television makers to conform to the broadcasters standards like it used to be. Edited November 5, 2010 by OldAtarian Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas Jentzsch #5 Posted November 5, 2010 NTSC was 480i, so would not have had enough scanlines available to display PAL correctly in addition to being the wrong frequency. Today with LCD TVs that statement would be true, but analog TV had no fixed pixels (or scanlines). They could display any frequency (and scanlines) they where able to sync to and their frequency generator was able to produce. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maiki #6 Posted November 6, 2010 LCD TVs never have optimal resolution if speaking about retro gaming, for sure not with Atari 2600... And not to mention response times... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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