• @dustojnikhummer
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    32 years ago

    Nope. Electronics is one industry where imperal still wins for some reason

    • VanillaGorilla
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      12 years ago

      I remember buying TVs in centimeters. It was a thing. Monitors have been imperial as long as I can remember, but TVs were metric. They only switched when they got bigger for whatever reason.

      • @dustojnikhummer
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        22 years ago

        I’m Czech and our TVs were also sold in centimeters back in the day when a 32inch was huge. Weirdly, some retailers still mention both. You would have inches in the description but the image of the TV would have it in cm

        • @dustojnikhummer
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          12 years ago

          I honestly don’t. I know how big a 7inch phone is, how big a 55inch TV is, but otherwise I got no clue how long an inch is.

    • @Fosheze
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      12 years ago

      I still don’t get why. I worked in an electronics factory in the US and we measured everything in metric. The only exception was wire strip lengths for some reason.