Hello Bob.

11 Jul 04 14:07, you wrote to me:

 BL>  Did you actually measure the screen size on those "51cm"
sets? 51 cm
 BL> is only 20" to start with. It's traditional to round-up an inch to the
 BL> size in inches, but the size in cm has to the diagonal of the *active*
 BL> screen, rounded *down*, by law. Those sets measured 48 cm (19inches)!

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

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

Jasen

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