You can’t expect an video game journalist to understand basic display principles.
Yes you can.
Comment on 4k is not 2160p - heard it here first!
MortyMcFry@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It really shows how bad the marketing of these higher resolutions are. We always advertised the vertical lines and then we switched to horizontal lines.
You can’t expect an video game journalist to understand basic display principles.
theKalash@feddit.ch 1 year ago
snooggums@kbin.social 1 year ago
Wife is sarcasm?
theKalash@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Sarcasm is my wife.
jordanlund@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I don’t expect a journalist to know, I expect an editor or fact checker to at least Google “4k resolution”.
Or how about “red dead redemption xbox” to see what the BC version runs at…
Pro-tip: Xbox One S / Series S - 1440p
Xbox One X / Series X - Native 4KStrangle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s pretty confusing
“If you think 4K and UHD are one and the same, I don’t blame you. I blame the companies that LOVE to use them interchangeably all the time. You pick up a Blu-Ray movie disc of a 4K movie and you will most definitely see an Ultra HD label on it. 4K is actually not a consumer display and broadcast standard but UHD is. 4K displays are used in professional production and digital cinemas and feature 4096 x 2160 pixels”
SaltySalamander@kbin.social 1 year ago
UHD features a 16:9 aspect ratio and is twice the resolution of full HD
Heh, no. 4k is exactly four times the resolution of 1080p.
Strangle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
1920 x 2 = 3840 (4K UHD)
That’s what he’s talking about.
WestwardWinds@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is double the resolution, because resolution is expressed as an x,y pair. It is 4 times the pixel density for the same screen size.
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 1 year ago
UHD is 4x Full HD resolution. The person who wrote that can’t even do math. That’s like saying 4^2 = 2 x 1^2 because 2 x 1 x 1 = 2 x 2
Strangle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s obviously talking about horizontal lines, not pixels
jordanlund@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I don’t know that it’s THAT confusing, since by definition we’re talking consumer grade products, not professional grade.
Amd that’s a distinction consumers have been making for years.
caranddriver.com/…/2022-hyundai-santa-cruz-pickup…
I mean, yeah, technically it’s classified as a pickup truck… but nobody will ever confuse it for:
MortyMcFry@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I thought the term “basic” would hint the sarcasm but I failed.
It really isn’t that hard to grasp, unless you are trying to frame your article a certain way.
dandroid@dandroid.app 1 year ago
I get not wanting to call it “2160p” because that’s a lot of syllables. But you’re right, it was really dumb to switch which lines we are referring to. I’m sure a better name could have been come up with. Even UHD was better imo.
The one that really irks me are the people who call 2560x1440 2K. I have always known 2K to mean 2048 x 1080. But it has picked up so much traction that it has pretty much been redefined at this point.
CheezyWeezle@lemm.ee 1 year ago
2K is supposed to refer to a 2048x2048 square 1:1 aspect image, same with 4K being a 4096x4096 image. This term is correctly used a lot when referring to texture sizes. A 4K texture is 4096x4096 texels.
I think the term started getting mixed up with people discussing what resolutions benefit from texture size increases. Generally, if you are running, say, 4K textures, you would really only always benefit from that if you have a 2160p screen, just because lower resolutions dont have the definition to actually display those texels. So, people start inter changing “4K screen” and “4K-benefitting screen” and we end up where we are now.