I just saw at work a box for an LG LED TV that says 119 cm in large font followed by [47] in smaller font.
Now, 119 cm equals 46.85 inches (to two decimal places), so the "47" is clearly a reference to the nominal screen size in inches. I note however that no units are attached to the "47" and it appears much like a secondary indication would. Is there hope that screen sizes will gradually show up more and more primarily in centimeters? Cause for hope, perhaps? By the by, I was in a fiber optic cabling class last week with a bunch of guys who are (aside from me) operations technicians for data center hardware. I was surprised to hear one guy say (after many mentions in class of metric units like nanometers for wave length, kilometers for the signal propagation of VCSEL light sources across single mode optical fibers, microns for fiber optic cable core diameters --- which I kept trying to correct to micrometers with some success, etc .) that he had come around and abandoned his former opposition to metric units and now preferred them. Another cause for hope? -- Ezra
