4k is not 2160p - heard it here first!

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4k is not 2160p - heard it here first! - Lemmy.world

Dear God, I hope they sack this “journalist” quickly.

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.

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 4K

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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”

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.

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.
Actually, display resolution refers to exactly what you call pixel density, and NOT the pixel dimensions. This error is so common that the term resolution has practically been redefined outside of the professional (science and engineering) space, but technically, display resolution and pixel density are the same thing.