It is time to buy a flat TV. If you need to fit it in your office or between two objects, then you need to know how to measure the TV. Finding out the size of the TV is as easy as tying shoelaces. However, additional information will help you facilitate the selection of the TV.


We are often asked about the actual size of the screen in centimeters, depending on the diagonal in inches and centimeters. Shops selling electronics, report only the size of the diagonal, and imagine what actually the size of the sides of the screen we get without seeing the monitor live. The size of the image on the TV depending on the diagonal depends on the aspect ratio. This ratio may be 4: 3 - the so-called. square monitor, and 16: 9 widescreen TV. Now almost all new TVs are produced with an aspect ratio of 16: 9, therefore, below we give the table of correspondence of the dimensions of the LCD screen of the TV depending on the diagonal. When choosing a TV or you need to consider that the actual size of the TV will be 3-4 cm larger because of the frame around the screen.