2560x1440 isn't 2k, stop calling it that. Where the fuck did this even come from...

2560x1440 isn't 2k, stop calling it that. Where the fuck did this even come from? I know Youtube and Newegg incorrectly refers to 1440p as "2k," but it just seems like such a retarded mistake. DCI 2K is 2048x1080. If anything calling 1920x1080 "FHD 2k" would be more accurate, although I've heard few people call it that. 2560x1440 would be 2.6k, not 2k.

Fucking this.

why is 3840x2160 considered 4k?
last I checked neither of those dimensions met or exceeded 4k pixels

1080p is so close to "2K" there is no point calling them different things.

why can't we just say 1440p
like in the sense of fourteen forty p
why do we need these worthless and meaningless names like FHD, UHD, 2k, 4k, etc

marketing

It's even worse with 8k, or 7680x4320. Thank TV manufacturers for corrupting what was supposed to be only used as a film standard and confusing the hell out of everyone.

4k is 4x fhd
2560 x 1440 is almost 2x fhd
now fuck off retard faggot autist

You are incredibly stupid. 4k has never been called that because it's 4x the pixels of 1080p. "k" means thousand, "x" means times. Again, it's a film standard, it has fuck all to do with TV's. 2K is 2048x1080, and 4K is 4096x2160. 1K would be 1024x540, if anyone actually used it.

Agreed. 1440p and 2160p are what we should be using instead of marketing terms that makes less every time they try to come up with something that sounds better than the previous tech.
Though 4k definitely doesn't get under my skin the way "super duper HD" would have if they chose to continue that autism. I just hate that it's so arbitrary an uninformative.

Did you seriously make an entire thread just to sperg out at a strawman of your design?

Just fuck my standards up

ultra high speed HDMI
faster than regular speed HDMI
faster than regular hi-speed HDMI
faster even than ultra regular speed HDMI

1920x1080 is closer to "2k" than 3840x2160 is to "4k"

The amount of goyims that have fallen for 4k proves how susceptible people are to marketing

NO. WRONG. Pixel arrays should be reverred to with the area of the whole array, not one dimension. Using one dimension is inaccurate at best and trickery at worst.

2560*1440 = 3.68 MP (megapixel)

1920*1080 = 2.07 MP
1920*1200 = 2.30 MP
2560*1600 = 4.10 MP
3840*2160 = 8.29 MP
etc...

To elaborate, the bullshit meaningless marketing term such as "27 inch 1440p display" should be: "312in^2 3.7MP 16:9 display".

In relative terms, they're exactly as close, dumbass...

the whole "480p" type designations were designed for analog CRT displays
an analog CRT signal has no fixed horizontal resolution, only a fixed number of horizontal lines (vertical resolution)
so "480p" really did tell you everything you needed to know
of course, it's a bad idea to use it on digital displays, since their horizontal resolution is also fixed, but change is hard

Your eye can't see more than 60K anyways.

Which is why I said 'pixel arrays', not 'displays'.

60k 24hz monitors when????

>stretching 4k horizontally to make 5k
why not stretch 4k down to make 16:10

dont tell me your one of those brainlets who thinks theres no difference between 60 hz and 120

you realize your rods and cones are indepently firing at any moment, that you can see twice as many cursor trails with 120 hz, and there is such a thing as enhanced frame alignment

>he actually believes /sci/ shills

OH NO NO NO NO

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