[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote >This British comedy was on TV early this morning (BBC America). >One scene showed two fellows unloading TV's from a truck. >The boxes had a brand of Ferguson or something similar and, >on the top, "59 cm colour TV". >Has an inroad been made here?
Monitor and TV size is not simply a matter of metric or non-metric. The difference of measurement system also gets mixed up with differences of what is being measured. The tradition is to measure CRT glass size in inches and LCD (and occasionally CRT) 'viewable size' in cm. The difference in the two measures relates partly to the different technologies of CRT and LCD. Early CRT's had a variable image size so the glass size was a better measure. LCD's have always had a constant image size because of the way they work and visible size has been used in marketing rather than the glass size. Modern CRT's are more consistent in image size and it is now common to provide this measure. If you search the web you will find plenty of examples to illustrate this, including the TV you mention.
