A new study published in Nature by University of Cambridge researchers just dropped a pixelated bomb on the entire Ultra-HD market.

A new study published in Nature by University of Cambridge researchers just dropped a pixelated bomb on the entire Ultra-HD market, but as anyone with myopia can tell you, if you take your glasses off, even SD still looks pretty good :)

    • nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Even 4K is noticeable for monitors (but probably not much beyond that), but this is referring to TVs that you’re watching from across the couch.

    • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      Going down from 24" 2048x1152 to 27" 1920x1080 was an extremely noticeably change. Good god I loved that monitor things looked so crisp on it.

        • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          24 hours 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.

          • _g_be@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            17 hours 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

            • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              6 hours 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 are inconsistent (and PAL throws a wrench on everything), but the system works.

              PS: I also don’t like that 540p is called qHD cause it’s a quarter of Full HD.

      • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        24 hours 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”.