My 73 inch TV came in a 67 inch box. WTF?

[dafoe]

I bought a 73 inch Mitsubishi TV. It finally arrived today. I haven't opened it yet. But the box only measures 67 inches across. And it even says 73 inches on the box. Printed clear as day in big numbers. So I got the right TV.

Is this normal? Do companies usually lie about size? Wouldn't that be illegal. I don't get it.

[edDV]

I bought a 73 inch Mitsubishi TV. It finally arrived today. I haven't opened it yet. But the box only measures 67 inches across. And it even says 73 inches on the box. Printed clear as day in big numbers. So I got the right TV.

Is this normal? Do companies usually lie about size? Wouldn't that be illegal. I don't get it.

Screen sizes are measured diagonally.

[wrathofbod]

pmsl..lol

measure from top left corner to bottom right corner.

[Des]

Sometime they shrink in shipping of they get wet.


--dES

[CSULB71]

pmsl..lol

measure from top left corner to bottom right corner.

No, no -- that's wrong. You have to measure from the top right corner to the bottom left corner.

[minidv2dvd]

you can't get an accurate measurement until you remove the shrink wrap.

[Steve Stepoway]

pmsl..lol

measure from top left corner to bottom right corner.

No, no -- that's wrong. You have to measure from the top right corner to the bottom left corner.

Depends on whether you are measuring the front side of the box or the back side. If you measure in the wrong direction you get a negative size. Then when you open the box the TV disappears in a puff of negative entropy.

[neomaine]

pmsl..lol

measure from top left corner to bottom right corner.

No, no -- that's wrong. You have to measure from the top right corner to the bottom left corner.

dafoe,

These two yahoos are so full of crap, don't listen to them. It's bottom left to top right if you're right handed and bottom right to top left if you're left handed.

[jagabo]

That's plain stupid. You have to average the two to get an accurate result. Parallelogram distortion is a big problem with larger screens.

[minidv2dvd]

aren't you supposed to also account for the sine wave deflection of current float screen production?

[Noahtuck]

No no no!!!!

You measure from top to bottom, then side to side, add the two, take that total then divide by 3.14159265

[lordsmurf]

Much like the foam animals you can get at the zoo, simply put it in the bathtub, add water and wait 30 minutes.
It'll get bigger.

Just don't plug it in yet.

[poisondeathray]

no... they use metric inches in Japan , which are smaller than imperial inches. But the boxes and packaging are made in the USA which use imperial

[M Bruner]

I believe it's like a bag of potato chips. They reason it's not a completely full 73 inches is because "contents may have settled during shipping". So take the TV out of the box and pour it into a bowl. Now weigh the TV and bowl, subtract the weight of the bowl from the total weight. It should weigh 73 inches. Wait a minute....

[aedipuss]

hehe. reminds me of old vcd.d days.... all we need is doc, radiohowie, bugs, et.al. to show up.

[neomaine]

You know, since dafoe has been a member since '02 (with over 400 posts, not going for any records, but enough...) I kinda hope he was playing around. But, I really think he didn't know. I'm sure he's having a moment right now. And then maybe a .

Let's do him a favor an have a good ol fashioned thread jack....

I had my own WTF/OOPS moment as a sophomore in high school. History teacher was discussing some advanturer who crossed the Atlantic and then the Pacific. He asked how they could know the difference between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Me, not being shy in the classroom, raised my hand. The only one in the room. So, he had no choice but to chose me. My answer: Because the Pacific is fresh water. Brought a grin to my teacher's face a roar from the classroom. Then everyone figured out I actually believed seeing how red my face was.

Yup, I didn't know the Pacific was good old salty sea water until I was 16 years old.

Naaaaaaahhhhhhh, thinking and actually asking why the box was only 67 inches is worse.... nevermind.

[Noahtuck]

You know, since dafoe has been a member since '02 (with over 400 posts, not going for any records, but enough...) I kinda hope he was playing around. But, I really think he didn't know. I'm sure he's having a moment right now. And then maybe a .

Yeah i was kind of thinking the same thing.....
Like, how could you be a member here for 8 years, even live in the world for 8 years and not know TV's, regardless of size or type, and not know all TV's have always been measured Diagonally ?

Even back in the old days with 4:3 CRT/Tube TV's, they have always been measured Diagonally....

I think this is a good idea for a new poll....

Who's reply is the best.....

And i vote for M Bruner, on a funny level....

[gll99]

You know, since dafoe has been a member since '02 (with over 400 posts, not going for any records, but enough...) I kinda hope he was playing around. But, I really think he didn't know. I'm sure he's having a moment right now. And then maybe a .

Yeah i was kind of thinking the same thing.....
Like, how could you be a member here for 8 years, even live in the world for 8 years and not know TV's, regardless of size or type, and not know all TV's have always been measured Diagonally ?

Even back in the old days with 4:3 CRT/Tube TV's, they have always been measured Diagonally....

I think this is a good idea for a new poll....

Who's reply is the best.....

And i vote for M Bruner, on a funny level....

I vote for the question.

Good one!

[Oddy]

No no no!!!!

You measure from top to bottom, then side to side, add the two, take that total then divide by 3.14159265

Only for circular screens

You could of course measure top to bottom, then side to side, square each measurement, add the two and take the square root of the answer.
Hey, wait, that would actually work!

[95teetee]

my guess would be that a woman designed the box.


And she was used to being told that things were 6" bigger than they actually are.

[16mmJunkie]

my guess would be that a woman designed the box.


And she was used to being told that things were 6" bigger than they actually are.

Ahhhhhh a Classic quote!!

[sum_guy]

Is it possible your looking at the box backwards, it's actually 37" inches?

Quantum physics may be playing a role here too, since things don't actually touch anything, it's possible that the TV really is 73" inches and that the buildup of electrons between the box and the TV are too high causing a small black hole at the rim of the vortex to the box, thereby warping the actual size of the TV in space and making the box appear way too small? In theory, opening the box could rectify a solution to this dilemma. I really wish I had paid more attention in physics class.


It is a really unusual problem, my Mitsubishi 60" TV came in a box 4.3 light years long, by .4777777777778 light years high. It almost didn't fit in my truck.

I hope we are all able to figure this one out.

[TreeTops]

To get an accurate measurement, you have to do a calculation based on the fact that the distance is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.

[TBoneit]

No no no!!!!

You measure from top to bottom, then side to side, add the two, take that total then divide by 3.14159265

Only for circular screens

You could of course measure top to bottom, then side to side, square each measurement, add the two and take the square root of the answer.
Hey, wait, that would actually work!

My first TV set had a 10" round screen, B & W RCA BTW. There was no Diagonal on it.

[sum_guy]

Wait a minute, modern TV's are 16:9 !

[aedipuss]

No no no!!!!

You measure from top to bottom, then side to side, add the two, take that total then divide by 3.14159265

Only for circular screens

You could of course measure top to bottom, then side to side, square each measurement, add the two and take the square root of the answer.
Hey, wait, that would actually work!

My first TV set had a 10" round screen, B & W RCA BTW. There was no Diagonal on it.

you sure it was completely round? i recall an early b&w rca tv of ours had curved sides but was flat on top and bottom.

[olyteddy]

Simply measure the height of the screen. Square that. Now measure the width of the screen. Square that. Add the two squares together. Now take the square root of that sum...That should equal 73"....Pythagorean theorem

[aedipuss]

Simply measure the height of the screen. Square that. Now measure the width of the screen. Square that. Add the two squares together. Now take the square root of that sum...That should equal 73"....Pythagorean theorem

sorry but oddy already mentioned that -1. -4 points for not getting the gist of the running gag also.

i'd assume the op is one of the mods in disguise.

[M Bruner]

Is it possible your looking at the box backwards, it's actually 37" inches?

It is a really unusual problem, my Mitsubishi 60" TV came in a box 4.3 light years long, by .4777777777778 light years high. It almost didn't fit in my truck.

I hope we are all able to figure this one out.

So in the universe around your truck, it takes light 4.3 years to travel from one end your TV to the other? Maybe that's why it took so long to load it onto your truck: Your universe is too big!

[sum_guy]

I think I figured it out, they sent you the correct 73" TV in a box thats too small!

The solution was right in front of me the whole time (my universe is way too big).

I'm going to ponder this question further with a little (maybe alot) of crappy bourbon and a crappy cigar.