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Re: OLED anyone?




On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:31:11 +0000, Jim Noble
<yahoo-groups@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dan Khan wrote:
>
> > I think that on WS TVs, the measurement is taken along the width,
not
> > the diagnol.  4:3 TVs still use the diagnol measurement though.
>
>
> It's always the diagonal - makes the numbers look bigger. They also
> measure the tube size, which will be bigger than the area of the
screen
> occupied by the picture...

And watch out for those that give the tube size in inches, then the
visible area in CM.

(How come TV's/Monitors etc aren't subject to the same rules as
grocers, who get prosecuted if they use Imperial units?)

--
-S



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