But 2K and 4K do refer to the horizontal resolution. There’s more than one resolution that’s referred to as 2K, for example 2048x1080 DCI 2K, but also 1920x1080 full HD, since it’s also almost 2000 pixels wide. The total number of pixels are in the millions, not thousands.
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Oisteink@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This confusion is likely local and exists inside your head only. 1080p has been known as full hd since the early days of dvd.
2k and 4k does not refer to horizontal resolution but the number of pixels. 1080p is 2k
oktoberpaard@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Oisteink@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah - like stated in the wiki article i linked. im not sure how I interpreted OP when reading the post again today. I didn’t notice the arrows part, and thats in the title.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I know the difference but there are lots of people who aren’t really savvy with video technology. I wouldn’t blame them for thinking that ［🢐 １０８０ 🢒］ is just barely better than 1024x768.
Oisteink@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nah
They won’t know about 1024x768, but if they did they would understand that 1080 is barely better.
Going from 1024 to 1920 horizontal also takes the aspect ratio from 3:4 to 16:9. so oixel density is barely better.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
www.xkcd.com/1889/
If 2K referred to the number of pixels, it would look like this: Bliss 50×40
FullHD is actually a little over 2M pixels.
Oisteink@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, and none of the 4k’s are 4k
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K_resolution
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
The Explain XKCD for this comic is gold.