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Dear God,

I hope they sack this "journalist" quickly.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

UHD is 4x Full HD resolution. The person who wrote that can’t even do math. That’s like saying 4m^2 = 2 x 1m^2 because 2 x 1 x 1 = 2 x 2

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s obviously talking about horizontal lines, not pixels

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No they specifically say

UHD features a 16:9 aspect ratio and is twice the resolution of full HD.

According to Wikipedia resolution is:

The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution

Resolution is the number of pixels in both dimensions, so they are wrong

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I think the point is that it’s ducking hard to talk about lmao 🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Its pixels, why do you think QHD (Quad HD) is called that. Because its 4x the pixels of HD(720p)

You cant talk about only horizontal because you open up the chat to ultrwides and deceptive marketing, such as AMD using "8k" to show off their new GPUs, when in fact they intentially used a ultrawide and marketed it as 8k.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How is it obvious that they are talking about horizontal when they also include vertical in the same calculation?

They just don't know the difference between pixels and lines.