Playing PS1 / PS2 NTSC games on PAL TVs

I see a little bit of confusion often and willingly about this argument. So I
thought to make it clear once and for all :)

This is mostly for CRT TV users, being it the best way for retro-gaming and also we
all know that new digital TVs perfectly support both signals.

To begin, every PAL TV perfectly supports NTSC signal at least since the 80s, when
the SCART input appear. Then if your TV has a SCART input it can show an NTSC
picture.

You'll just need a SCART-RGB cable (keep in mind that if your TV has more than one
SCART input, probably only the first one is prepared for an RGB signal).

If you connect the PlayStation to an old CRT TV with a composite cable instead,
you'll still be able to see the picture at the correct resolution/proportions
(480i) and correct refresh rate (60hz), but you'll see the picture in gray-scale
'cause the electronics responsible for processing the composite signal it's not
designed to decode NTSC colors. So your TV can't display NTSC colors from a
composite input.

(Newer CRT and many of the old ones too, depending on the brand/model, can decode
NTSC colors even from a composite signal).

So yes, I think you guessed it: we PAL users have played games with wrong
proportions, black bars, in slow motion, for decades without any real reason.

They could just convert the colors from NTSC to PAL and leave the rest as it was.

Take the X-BOX as an example. You can play 480i 60hz games with PAL colors, so that
you can correctly see colors even with a composite cable on any TV. This is
officially impossible on PlayStation console (PS3 included).

Summing up the only problem are the NTSC colors (not resolution/proportions nor
refresh rate) and only from a composite signal.

Therefore, if you have an old CRT TV, you can solve buying a SCART-RGB cable
(recommended choice in any case, being a cable that deliver a much better image
quality than the composite), otherwise you can solve playing your NTSC games in
PAL60 using GSM