how frequently do you think about how 4K as a resolution is designed to make it sound like it's 4x the size of 1080p even though it actually refers to the horizontal pixels unlike literally any other resolution measurement and is therefore only 2160p which is frankly still a big enough increase that it feels completely unhinged that they had to mislead you about it. like how many times a week is normal. at least a few, right?
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Isn't the total number of pixels for 4k four times the amount of 1080p?
My favourite part is how theatrical 4K and home TV 4K are slightly different, and some TVs “support” theatrical 4K by just cropping pixels off the left and right
HOW DOES THE GHOST OF PAN AND SCAN KEEP COMING BACK TO HAUNT US SO OFTEN
the part that most makes me want to don a brown cassock with a rope belt and go live in an ancient stone building is that the consumer format that almost everyone actually sees and interacts with ("4K UHD") is in fact... 3840 × 2160 pixels.
I thought it was 3840x2160 which is twice the value in each direction and therefore four times the area
No it’s named after the theatrical 4K that came first, which is 4096x2160 - so, actually 4K pixels. That resolution isn’t 16:9 so the home version reduced the horizontal res to hit the aspect ratio
Oh OK I never pay attention to what the theaters do so that makes some sense. 4k has always been a monitor resolution to me
gotta be honest i literally never thought about what size 4k actually is, i just assumed they called it that instead of a specific pixel count so they could just make shit up for advertising. like i lowkey suspected it wasn't even a real resolution but a vague range above 1080p
i think about it all the time and i am constantly mad. i refuse to say "4k"
I work in video & animation and I think about it every time I make a new comp in After Effects 😩
Theatres should no longer be allowed to dictate resolutions, they aren't the primary users.
this is what we get for straying from the divinely ordained 4:3 ratio
so i as a former film student I too am plagued by this inescapable fury 😞
I will say tho that if you do a little dance in your brain it's not too hard to imagine being angry at literally every shift that has ever occurred in the history of recording and displaying moving images? Like imagine seeing a Lumiere fragment and being like "oh wow that's sick, I'm going to reorient my life to make the creation of these kinds of moving images my livelihood!" and then spend literally all your money on a camera only for it to be outpaced and irrelevant in a decade
plus I worked w a 4k uhd camera for a semester and the file sizes were obscene and basically never worth it as far as I'm concerned!
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