The only imperial units I’ve ever seen in Europe, excluding the UK, are pipes and screen sizes where we use inches. Which is quite curious, since nobody knows how long an inch is, so TV sizes are basically an abstract unit that we memorize.
Pipes are the same, people know what a 1/2 or 3/4 pipe is, but I’d bet nobody thinks of that as the same unit they use for TVs.
The screen sizes thing is pretty recent. Back in the day when we still used CRT’s it was common to use centimeters for TV sizes. It only really changed once TV’s got bigger.
the diagonal measurement is just abstract now anyway. They’re even advertised as “XXin class” because the actual measurements don’t matter, people just want to know if it’s “the next size up” or not.
The only imperial units I’ve ever seen in Europe, excluding the UK, are pipes and screen sizes where we use inches. Which is quite curious, since nobody knows how long an inch is, so TV sizes are basically an abstract unit that we memorize.
Pipes are the same, people know what a 1/2 or 3/4 pipe is, but I’d bet nobody thinks of that as the same unit they use for TVs.
The screen sizes thing is pretty recent. Back in the day when we still used CRT’s it was common to use centimeters for TV sizes. It only really changed once TV’s got bigger.
I only have vague recollections of those days, but if you ask me, we used to measure TVs by the Kg… Those things were beefy AF.
Same in Australia. We measure tvs and monitors in inches, but literally no idea what an inch is lol
the diagonal measurement is just abstract now anyway. They’re even advertised as “XXin class” because the actual measurements don’t matter, people just want to know if it’s “the next size up” or not.