I’d love to know the technical reasoning for this. It probably has to do with clock frequency multipliers like when doing serial comms your baud needs to be pretty close to the spec but it’s pretty much never going to be exact.
I’ve only partially researched this, but I’m pretty sure it’s actually an ancient carry over from when NTSC changed to colour. Wikipedia says it switched from 60hz to 59.94 “to eliminate stationary dot patterns in the difference frequency between the sound and color carriers”. They just kind of kept doubling it and we ended up with these odd refresh rates, I’m guessing for NTSC TV compatibility.
I’d love to know the technical reasoning for this. It probably has to do with clock frequency multipliers like when doing serial comms your baud needs to be pretty close to the spec but it’s pretty much never going to be exact.
I’ve only partially researched this, but I’m pretty sure it’s actually an ancient carry over from when NTSC changed to colour. Wikipedia says it switched from 60hz to 59.94 “to eliminate stationary dot patterns in the difference frequency between the sound and color carriers”. They just kind of kept doubling it and we ended up with these odd refresh rates, I’m guessing for NTSC TV compatibility.