BL> It's actually illegal to do that, but when they went to the
BL> flat screen, the Chinese started labellign the set according to
BL> the "size" of the picture tube (a 51cm tube leads to a 48cm
BL> flat screen).

JB> Sneaky... like the gigabytes used by hard drive manufacturers
JB> 10^9 instad of 2^30 (a difference of about 7%)

 I can go along with hard drives that tend increase by multiples of
two anyway (No one sells a 42 gig drive overa 40 gig drive). With
TV, a 7% increase in screen-size equates to a 20% increase in price!
And even more, for computer screens.

Regards,
Bob

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