These days, kids identify them by the aspect ratio.

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    … or how blurry the image is (SD vs HD).

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        Radio vs TV for Boomers

        B&W vs Color for Gen X

        SD vs HD would be Millenials

        4K vs HD for Zoomers

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          I’m a millennial and I can’t really tell the difference between SD and HD. Do you mean like when YouTube switches to 360p instead of 1080?

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            Just FYI. Ultra HD is 4k Full HD is 1080p (2k) HD is720p (1k) SD is 480p

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              I recall some people calling 1440p 2K and it really grinds my gears

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      That’s a big problem for stuff that was originally shot on video. Old stuff shot on film can look pretty good when digitized.

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        But then you also have that very specific window of time when a lot of stuff especially SFX was done on video that can’t be upscaled. Babylon 5 fans weep.