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I've always thought of 4K as "4x FullHD". In that way it makes sense.

• mavhc 3y ago
  TV and Digital Cinema have different standards, because of course they do
• deleted 3y ago
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• dheera 3y ago
  Bleh no, K means thousand. For a long time we specified displays by their vertical dimension -- 480p, 720p, 1080p. Then the marketing guys came along and decided that the horizontal dimension sounds bigger. If we stuck with the less-bullshitty way of doing things and kept comparisons 1:1, we'd call 3840x2160 displays 2160p or "2K" displays, but instead, the marketing people decided that we're going to change things to horizontal and called 3840x2160 "4K".
• throwaway11460 3y ago
  It's 2x Full HD though
  • _kuvn 3y ago
    2x in a single direction, 4x the number of pixels
    • throwaway11460 3y ago
      Oh yeah... What I meant is, 1920x2 = 3840 ~~ 4000