To all,
Aiwa Europe sent a positive answer in Dutch to me. I translate it here. It shows
the crooked thinking of the Japanse electronics industry in a most glaring way,
it thinks that ifp is a global standard! This notion must be destroyed at all
cost.
Dear Han,
To start: thanks for your interest in our brand! Constructive commentary is
always wanted. Indeed, what your letter below shows is much more illogical than
necessary. The reason for having inches on our boxes is that the Japanese
headquarters still regards them as the international standard. However, your
message has been forwarded, who knows, this will be changed in the future."
Regards
Aiwa Netherlands
American and other members could go to http//www.aiwa.com, where you enter the
American site; surf from there to the Japanese one through its links and make it
clear to them what international standards really are.
Han
----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:03:32 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: screen sizes of AIWA TV's
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beste Han,
Om te beginnen: bedankt voor je getoonde interesse in ons merk!
Constructief commentaar is altijd welkom. Inderdaad is onderstaand
onlogischer dan het zou kunnen. De reden dat er nog steeds inches op de
dozen staan is dat ons hoofdkantoor in Japan dit nog steeds als
internationale standaard ziet. Echter, je verhaal is doorgespeeld, dus
wie weet, wordt dit in de toekomst aangepast...
Met vriendelijke groet,
AIWA Nederland B.V.
Marian Oudenes
Product & Promotion
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Han Maenen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> <mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]>
> Gesendet: Montag, 12. März 2001 07:57
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: screen sizes of AIWA TV's
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>
> Sir,
> Last Saturday 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.
> On the Japanese AIWA site I saw this slogan:
> "AIWA speaks the world language"
> Is that language the American so-called system of units by chance, to be
> adopted by all nations? 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]
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>
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