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    One flat panel TV sold every 1.7sec in Britain in week before World Cup

    One flat-panel TV set was sold every 1.7 seconds in the UK in the week before the World Cup, according to market-research organisation GfK.

    During what GfK calls the "five weeks of the World Cup" (27/05 - 01/07), £337m was splashed out on flat-panel sets, helping to drive growth in consumer electronics by a staggering 30 per cent in June alone.
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    Page encoding is set to Cyrilic (K018-R) for some reason. changing to Western European (Windows) fixes the £ sign. Using IE6 on Win2K.

    Oh yeah, and that sounds like a staggering number of TVs

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    No such encoding issues here (FireFox and IE6).

    Anyone else had the same problem?

    As for the number of TV sets sold, yup, it is kind of staggering.

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    that is a hell of alot of TV's, just wish i could afford a nice big 42" TV

    no encoding problems here either mate
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Crabtree
    No such encoding issues here (FireFox and IE6).

    Anyone else had the same problem?
    Seems fine here (IE6 on Win XP Pro).

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