Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K

Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Isn’t 2K the same as 1080p essentially?

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, not really. “2K” is 2560x1440 resolution, it’s almost twice the pixel density.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    2k is 1440p.

    720 doubles to 1080.

    1080 doubles to 1140

    1140 double to 4k.

    Companies all skipped 2k for the most part because all consumers cared about was resolution. That’s why the jump to 4k took so fucking long, for the most part we skipped an entire resolution generation. So even with 4k, all the other stuff wasn’t caught up.

    Pretty much the same thing happened with 4g, the telecom corps agreed on a set of requirements to say they’d reached a new generation, but the numbers needed to go up before the tech was ready, so they all agreed to just claim 4g arrived, that’s why there was so many different flavors of 4g.

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