On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 5:57 PM <groepaz_at_gmx.net> wrote: > > Am Freitag, 15. Januar 2021, 17:06:56 CET schrieb Michał Pleban: > > Istvan Hegedus wrote: > > > Thanks Gerrit. I have recently cleaned my electronic junks and just left > > > some old Cisco stuff. I don't have old PCs left. I can buy the crystal > > > from local shop but that is a very small one. The one that I have > > > ordered is the same size. > > > Anyway I believe the most difficult part is to get an NTSC display... > > > > I think that nowadays TVs can display both PAL and NTSC, as it makes > > little economical sense to create separate PAL and NTSC hardware > > versions. In any case, my cheap Polish TV set has no problem displaying > > NTSC video from the MAX Machine. same here, any cheap (even old-ish) TV can display NTSC just fine (in Italy). > > Interstingly, multinorm seems to be common in Europe mostly... not so much in > the US. that's because when you make a PAL decoder, NTSC comes for free (no added components if you use a multi-standard decoder IC), instead, if you make an NTSC decoder and you don't really need PAL, you can save on a few components, like for example the delay line (unless now they can make the delay in the digital domain inside the IC). FrankReceived on 2021-01-15 19:00:03
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