2k is about double of 1080p and 4k is double of 2k
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olympicyes@lemmy.world 3 days agoIsn’t 2k and 1080P basically the same thing?
- stefenauris@pawb.social 3 days ago- ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 days ago- If 4k is 4k because the horizontal resolution is around 4000, so you’d think 1080p, with its 1920p-long lines would be 2k. It’s fucked that it isn’t. - JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 days ago- It’s all just marketing speak at this point. 
- _g_be@lemmy.world 2 days ago- “4k” is supposed to be a term for cinema widescreen resolution, but got taken over because it’s short and marketable because “4k is 4x as many pixels as 1080p” - What makes it worse is that then 1440p becomes 2k because “it’s 2x as many pixels” - The flip flop irks me - ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 days ago- They shouldn’t use numbers at all tbh. QQVGA, QVGA, VGA, q(uarter)HD, HD, Full HD, QHD, UHD and so on works for all aspect ratios, and you can even specify by adding prefixes like FW (full wide) VGA would be 480p at 16:9. It gets a little confusing cause sometimes the acronyms change (and PAL throws a wrench on everything), but the system works. 
 
- Noja@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago- 1080p is 2k, the commenters above are just wrong. 
 
 
- rmuk@feddit.uk 3 days ago- Yeah. They went from counting pixels by rows to columns. A 16:9 widescreen 1080 display is 1920×1080, and most manufacturers are happy to call 1920 “2K”. - pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago- Ah yes, my 1920x1080 monitor with a resolution of 2560x1440 
 
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
1920x1080 vs 2560x1440
Not crazy higher but a noticeable increase
Noja@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
It’s not 2k, it’s 2.5k