{"id":740878,"date":"2013-03-07T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=617915"},"modified":"2013-03-07T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:31:11","slug":"how-big-an-area-would-1-billion-televisions-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740878","title":{"rendered":"How big an area would 1 billion televisions cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/03\/07\/how-big-an-area-would-1-billion-televisions-cover\/totalscreensizetvshipments\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-617920\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/totalscreensizetvshipments.jpg?w=708&#038;h=361&#038;fit=708%2C361&#038;resize=708%2C361\" alt=\"TotalScreenSizeTVShipments\" width=\"708\" height=\"361\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-617920\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p>Over the past four years, TV makers have shipped about a billion television sets. If you combined them, that would be equivalent to a single TV set with a 330-million-square-meter screen, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/ihs.com\/\">IHS<\/a>, a market research company. That is about the same size as the country of Norway. Of course, no one knows what screen size those sets have, but it&#8217;s still a fun (if unscientific) stat. As for me, I am about to move and so I am getting rid of all the screens in my house except for four: MacBook Pro (Retina), iPad (Original), Kindle Paperwhite and iPhone5. 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If you combined them, that would be equivalent to a single TV set with a 330-million-square-meter screen, according to IHS, a market research company. That is about the same size as the country of Norway. 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