To-day I was in a shop where TV's are sold and I saw the TV-SE2130 from the Japanese company AIWA. On the box the diameter of the screen was expressed as 21 inches (Dutch and English), pouces, pollici, pulgadas and Zoll. NO metric in sight. A sticker on the TV screen said 21", again with NO metric at all. &*#@$+%^@*!!!!!!! Japan is supposedly a metric nation and what do her companies do? They stab us in the back! This is the kind of thing that is being reported to the BWMA. However, and this would always be omitted by the BWMA: the shop had stuck information to the TV too and there was the diameter of the screen in cm, *without* inches. I am going to find the AIWA website for an e-mail address. Then I will send them a protest message see below). Of course, if the metric-only directive had been in force, AIWA could not have indulged in such antics. This abuse is one more reason to refuse ANY further extension in the future. I wonder whether AIWA was part of the coalition, I think they were. Han Sir, To-day I was in a TV-shop in the Dutch city of Nijmegen and I saw one of your TV's on sale, an SE2130. On the box the diameter of the screen was expressed as 21 inches (Dutch and English), pollici, pulgadas, pouces and Zoll. A sticker on the screen also said 21". The shop had also information stuck to that TV but they gave the screen size in the units we really use for measuring TV screens, in centimeters only. Please, explain to me why AIWA wants Europeans and other non-American peoples to adopt American measuring units. Isn't Japan, where your company comes from, a metric nation? I have never understood why any screen size should be expressed in this medieval unit called 'inch' anyway. Most English speaking nations have adopted the metric system by now. Please metricate your boxes, stickers and instructions, by replacing the inches in English by the diameter in cm with inches in brackets, like 54 cm (21") and in all the other languages by metric sizes only. No-one wants inches here. Yours sincerely, Han Maenen The Netherlands [EMAIL PROTECTED]
