Once again I saw what the electronics industry is still up to. Really, it must be one of the most viciously anti-metric industries that ever existed. Its present-day antics are the same as if the US car industry exported cars to Europe with only ifp units on the dashboards (which it never did). I was in a TV shop yesterday and saw the box of a large Samsung TV. The word "color TV" was on the box in many languages, even in Russian. And under these indications was in very fat and large print:
28" Well done Samsung! Do you want world wide conversion to ifp? I deeply suspect so! Go to hell!! Anger spilled. Now I think I will send them a polite e-mail, asking them why they are doing that. I see the same trash on TV boxes from JVC and Philips, our own electronics company. It is not just American companies like metric-phobic Dell, it is others as well who are taking part in subverting the international use of measuring units. This attitude is really beyond me. I once sent a message to Philips on this issue, but they did not bother to answer. So I do not bother to buy Philips products anymore. Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
