On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 06:34:01 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This British comedy was on TV early this morning (BBC America). One scene >showed two fellows unloading TV's from a truck. The boxes had a brand of >Ferguson or something similar and, on the top, "59 cm colour TV". > >Has an inroad been made here?
UK TVs have been described in cm since at least the 80s. The Ferguson brand was one that gave prominence to the metric size (which is the more accurate visible diagonal, rather than the nominal tube size). While it is still included in most ads for TVs (and their packaging), the inch size is still usually given prominence. This is partly, no doubt, due to the arrival of domestic PCs with their emphasis on inches. Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
