Forget hoverboards how was BTTF 2 able to exactly predict.....

[Calavera]

Flat 16x9 Tvs!

[Dr. Zoidberg]

It was a pretty good prediction. They must have thought that with movies being widescreen that TVs would eventually go that way too.

[Calavera]

It was a pretty good prediction. They must have thought that with movies being widescreen that TVs would eventually go that way too.

Sure I understand that, but flatscreen too? As far as I know there was 0 flatscreen technology in 1989.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Flatscreens have been around since the 60s.

The one in BTTF2 was probably a prototype of a commercial product that was being developed at the time but was still too expensive to release.

[Roofus]

There were LCD screens. Predicting that they'd be able to make them bigger and in color within 30 years isn't unreasonable.