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You know how your 65" tv is actually 64.5 inches? That's called rounding. Now, imagine your TV was advertised as 4Ke when it was actually 1080p. That's calle
by weliketocode 8y ago
You know how your 65" tv is actually 64.5 inches?
That's called rounding.
Now, imagine your TV was advertised as 4Ke when it was actually 1080p.
That's called false advertising.
- fenwick67 8y ago4K is actually a great example because DCI 4K (the original "4K" spec) has more pixels than your 4K TV at home (4096 vs 3840).
- sofaofthedamned 8y agoWhich is why the TV's are advertised as UHD but the showreels and demos have 4k on them.
- ksec 8y agoActually both are reasonable and would not be considered as lying. To me at least, since 4K 3840 x 2160 is still double of 1080P, which WAS 2K. Until some idiot decide 1080P is just, 1080P, and 2K now stands for 1440P. You can see this now common in Phone Spec, Gaming and many other resources.
- notatoad 8y agoThere's a reason industries invent new terms instead of using technical ones - 1080 is a measurable number of pixels, if you claim you screen is 1080p or 65", then it can't be a lie. 5G means basically whatever AT&T wants it to mean, just like how the definition of 4G magically and retroactively expanded back to include HSPA phones when verizon or whoever decided it should.
- mynameisvlad 8y ago> 5G means basically whatever AT&T wants it to mean But it doesn't. 5G is an actual term (also known as IMT-2020 because of the release date) as defined by the International Telecommunications Union. 3GPP, who create the mobile standards like GSM/HSPA/LTE, also bases its standards on these IMT requirements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G
- mark-r 8y agoUnless it's an actual trademark, it doesn't count. I'm not sure how dissimilar trademarks have to be to each other, but I know that if a term is too generic it can't be trademarked.
- mynameisvlad 8y ago1080p and 4K aren’t trademarked either. Just because it’s not trademarked doesn’t mean it’s a scummy move to do what AT&T is doing, and is exactly the same as the ancestor comment saying that it would be ridiculous to see “4Ke” TVs.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Unless it's an actual trademark, it doesn't count It doesn't need to be a trademark to be used to deceive customers in a fraudulent manner.
- mark-r 8y agoSorry, I wasn't clear enough in my comment. I didn't mean it wasn't scummy and dishonest, just that having a legal entity in charge of the term "5G" isn't necessarily enough to stop them.
- mark-r 8y agoI love how companies now market their TVs as "65 inch class" so they don't have to measure exactly 65 inches.
- LeoPanthera 8y ago> Now, imagine your TV was advertised as 4Ke when it was actually 1080p. This happens with projectors. Many projectors are advertised as "4K" when in fact they only accept a 4K signal, but still project a 1080p picture. Some of them have a kind of hacky trick which involves vibrating the image chip, so that it can project a second set of pixels offset from the first by half a pixel, which gets you a ~2K picture - kinda sorta.
- userbinator 8y agoThat seems roughly the same 3x "misleading multiplier" as the suspiciously cheap (as in, <$50) projectors that sometimes appear, claiming "1080p" when in fact their actual projection LCD is 320x240.
- baddox 8y agoI’ve seen some good reviews of pixel-shifting 4k projectors, so I don’t know if that’s the best example. There’s no reason the technique couldn’t actually deliver a good 4k picture to your eyes.
- kalleboo 8y ago1080p is 2K. The "K" measurements are horizontal, not vertical like 1080p.
- gcbw2 8y agooh tell me about TV contrast ratios and pixel update time!
- choward 8y agoWhat if they used the same idea for a watch screen? Would that be "rounding"?
- mort96 8y ago64.5 is 99.2% of 65. If a watch screen advertised itself as 4", but was actually 3.968", I'm sure that would also be considered rounding.