Comments on: How big an area would 1 billion televisions cover? http://gigaom.com/2013/03/07/how-big-an-area-would-1-billion-televisions-cover/ Fri, 24 May 2013 18:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cheese http://gigaom.com/2013/03/07/how-big-an-area-would-1-billion-televisions-cover/#comment-1318500 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:38:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=617915#comment-1318500 It might be interesting to see how big an area would smartphones cover…does higher obsolescence compensate for much smaller screen size?

]]> By: Michael Wolfe http://gigaom.com/2013/03/07/how-big-an-area-would-1-billion-televisions-cover/#comment-1318346 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:51:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=617915#comment-1318346 Om, I love your stuff, but there is an error here.

A square kilometer is a million square meters. Norway is 385,000 square kilometers, which is 385 billion square meters.

330 million square meters of TV is 330 square kilometers, equal to an 18×18 kilometer square. This is the size of a city, but not a large country.

Still, the point remains intact. That is a lot of TV!

]]> By: Sean OBrien http://gigaom.com/2013/03/07/how-big-an-area-would-1-billion-televisions-cover/#comment-1318345 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:49:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=617915#comment-1318345 A billion TV’s would form a square of 31,623 by 31,623 TV’s. At 40″ per screen that’s about 20 miles on a side. That’s big but not even close to the size of Norway.

You must be thinking of lining them up end to end and measuring the entire length.

]]> By: Vishwanath http://gigaom.com/2013/03/07/how-big-an-area-would-1-billion-televisions-cover/#comment-1318291 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:37:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=617915#comment-1318291 Where would all that screens go? recycle or trash the planet.
Never know is it good to have so much technology or are we digging our future generations to the grave :O

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