@mr_A500:
Didn't mean to imply you were blind! :lol:
Getting dead tired here, but God knows there's always room for error here, but AFAIK in the U.S., even the earliest 1084's (plural, not 's') handled PAL as appropriately as the exterior controls would allow. By that I mean, yes... we've always had to adjust the vertical height and positioning in the back (1084+), but it would fill the entire screen at least and you could see everything you were supposed to. When you wanted to revert to NTSC, it was a simple matter of doing the reverse.
The original point being (and maybe I should have phrased it a little differently) is that in my experience, the 1080's released to the U.S. will *always* crop a PAL image and that no amount of adjusting (posterior or internally) will change that fact. The chassis is simply not designed without modification to:
a) squish the image (no vertical length adjustment).
b) raise the screen up in order to view it in its entirety (vertical height is severely limited).
...gosh, did the 1942/1950/1960 even have these capabilities? It's been so long now, I'd have to look them up. Almost too tired to wait for my Mac to shut down. Sometimes it hangs if I have an SD card in it. lol Wish I was posting on my Amiga so I could just turn the tootin' thing off! Goodnight!