Why is the display size measured in inches instead of centimeters?

Q: Why is the size of the display screen measured in inches rather than centimeters, centimeters should be easier to imagine?

Answer: The TV was invented by the British, and it was in inches in the beginning. Britain is the birthplace of the industrial revolution, inches in the industrial field is widely used, many drawings, nameplate used in inches as a unit of length. Display devices, especially televisions, use inches to indicate size

The United States had been the world's first screen purchasing power by 2010, after 2010 China. The United States itself in inches, and at the same time as the main market, with inch

People on the concept of television size, has been accustomed to the inch,19 inch screen/57 cm screen, for the modern, the former impression has been cured

Some companies are already using cm or local units of measure, such as Samsung and Dell, but will still be labeled with parentheses in the system. Then even if the description used cm, the product code is also inch ... The general manufacturers are mainly the production of standard specifications of the screen, the industry may have been using inch, so also did not want to change the past.