Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes

• pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  1920x1080 vs 2560x1440

  Not crazy higher but a noticeable increase

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  • Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not 2k, it’s 2.5k

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• stefenauris@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  2k is about double of 1080p and 4k is double of 2k

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s all just marketing speak at this point.

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    • _g_be@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      1080p is 2k, the commenters above are just wrong.

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• rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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”.

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  • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah yes, my 1920x1080 monitor with a resolution of 2560x1440

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