simple answer is grid frequency in europe is 50hz, in the US and Canada it's 60hz.
Early TV's synchronised to the grid frequency (and drew the entire screen on each cycle) - also remember TV's where analogue to start with (and operated at large voltages/transformers) so if they didn't sync with the grid electrical noise becomes a big problem with the power supply.
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simple answer is grid frequency in europe is 50hz, in the US and Canada it's 60hz.
Early TV's synchronised to the grid frequency (and drew the entire screen on each cycle) - also remember TV's where analogue to start with (and operated at large voltages/transformers) so if they didn't sync with the grid electrical noise becomes a big problem with the power supply.
In monitor terms it reduced jitter.
Yeah, I knew why. :-)
My brain immediately went into "solving" mode, though.