[Moru]

Europe runs PAL, here it was popular to hunt TV's that could run NTSC because of the higher framerate. This leads to less flicker. All TV's that can run NTSC can also run PAL so you can switch between the 50/60 Hz as you need on computers. Can't remember how it was with consoles, once I got a computer I never really touched a console again :-)

[singlePostAnon]

A lot of TVs sold in European countries since at least the late 1980s / early 1990s could sync to 60Hz just fine, so no need to import TVs or hunt very special ones, just the console hardware if modding it wasn't possible or you didn't want to do it for some reason.

Even many of the earlier sets can be made to sync to 60Hz by adjusting vertical hold. Sometimes this control was even available without opening the TV set. Vertical size of the picture may become an issue then, though... (can often be adjusted easily as well but needs opening the set, and then you can't properly watch PAL TV anymore)

If using composite video or s-video (Y/C), then NTSC colour encoding could be a problem until some years later, but RGB inputs (via SCART / Péritel) were also very common on European TVs and that bypasses colour encoding / decoding completely (and also gives the best picture quality in general).

(well looks like I wasn't going to be a SINGLE post anon after all...)