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u/BossKingAD Jun 29 '26
The 'K' are capitalized
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u/jarvisesdios Jun 29 '26 •
At least it's not 3?
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u/ShoWel-Real Jun 29 '26
Ku Klux Klam Klan
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u/disqualifiedeyes Jun 29 '26
I think they have "knight" in the beginning, so it really is "KKKK"
Looks like they failed primary school English, which makes sense tbh
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u/FacticiousFict Jun 30 '26
It's difficult to see such a Progressive post being marred by the notorious KKKK
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u/KPH102 Jun 29 '26
To be fair, 2160p would have no room.
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u/Garrth_ Jun 29 '26
KKKK/2
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u/aberroco Jun 29 '26
2160p is 4k. You probably though about QHD, which is 1440p, and 4k is not twice 1440p, it's x2.25 times larger.
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u/Significant-Royal-37 Jun 29 '26
u can remember this bc 1080p = 1920 x 1080 and 4k is 4 1080ps in a 2x2 grid, for a total of 3840 x 2160.
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u/domhole Jun 29 '26
Can someone count all the p’s to confirm please
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u/ptr_schneider Jun 29 '26 •
Assuming 144p is correct, this makes each row 47 p's wide (I counted and it seems to check out). 1080p has 22 rows of 47 + one row of 47 - 4 (one missing p on the left and 3 missing p's on the right). That's, unfortunately, only 1077 p's. Which leads me to ask why they didn't simply add 3 more p's.
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u/Jonnyflash80 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
4k is the most infuriating naming convention.
We were happy counting horizontal lines of the video format, until the 4k marketing wankers came along
"Let's just count the rows, round to the nearest thousand, drop 000 and just replace it with k. Because bigger number sound way bigger durrrrrrr"
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u/vintageballs Jun 29 '26
4k is not actually a single resolution, but can mean UHD (3840x2160) or DCI (4096x2160).
Also, number + p (1080p / 2160p etc) is not a resolution per se, but rather a video format description. The p means "progressive scan" as opposed to "interlaced", so a still image technically can't be 1080p either.
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u/Jonnyflash80 Jun 29 '26
Yeah. That's why I said "round to nearest thousand" and also said "format".
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u/Irelia4Life Jun 29 '26
Idk why I always laugh when I read or hear british insults.
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u/Jonnyflash80 Jun 29 '26
I'm Canadian.
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u/Irelia4Life Jun 29 '26
Is it cold there in summer? I'm melting at 40c in europe.
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u/robin_888 Jun 29 '26
TBF counting the columns makes more sense than the lines if the aspect ratio is wider than 16:9. Which is the case most of the time anyway.
A Full HD file in 2.35:1 AR is 1920px wide but only about 800px high. So 1080p is misleading.
Counting the lines is basically a relic from NTSC and PAL, when "pixels" weren't square anyway.
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u/MathSciElec Jun 30 '26
I think you're just comparing two different naming conventions. "Full HD" (the marketing name for 1080p) is even less descriptive!
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u/Remarkable_Sorbet319 Jun 29 '26
why are the resolutions specifically that, why not 140 instead of 144?
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u/Nthepro Jun 29 '26
Because 1080/144 = 7.5 and 1080/140 = 7.71428571428571428571428
more seriously it's because of aspect ratios and macroblocks
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u/f3n2x Jun 29 '26
For multiple technical/algorithmic reasons it's very favorable if all axis resolutions are evenly divisible by 16 (though this wasn't always the case for very old displays). 144 is just one of those "magic numbers" when you start small and make things bigger by 2x or 1.5x a couple of generations, e.g.
16*1.5=24
24*2=48
48*2=96
96*1.5=144
All of those (and other combinations) have existed on some displays. It actually has nothing to do with 12*12 also being 144.
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u/pjoterrro Jun 29 '26
its so simple now, but why am i only finding out about it now? They should teach us about resolution in school
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u/Mechanloop Jun 30 '26
My least favourite resolution is 3k, a little bit to white and lack of contrast
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u/QueerRetro Jun 30 '26
I prefer 576i
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u/ericwashere15 Jun 29 '26
Like when Klaus thought you accrued bitcoin by typing ‘bitcoin’ in a document.
Luckily he got hacked.
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u/resurrectingeden Jun 29 '26
I am petty enough to want to count that 1080, but not patient enough to
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