Literally never
1280 × 720 was “HD ready”
1920 × 1080 was “Full HD”I always thought “HD ready” was a bit of a marketing scam.
I remember ”HD ready” as HDR, then years later HDR (high dynamic range) came a was very confused as to way a 1080p monitor was marked as HD Ready.
On a small enough screen it still is.
My first computer screen was 40col by 24 row of text, with 8x8 pixel characters. So 320 by 192, but you could not use it as canvas, just as characters. You could redefine characters, but not enough to make a real pixel display.
It still is.
720 = HD 1080 = Full HD
Then I think there’s UHD, before they start labelling them as shortened numbers like 8k
Uhd is not 4k. Uhd is 3840x2160, 4k is 4096x2160. TV companies calling 2160P UHD is a scam.You can’t watch 4k on 2160p uhd, but you can watch 2160p on real 4k. All hollywood movies have to be rerendered or upscaled from a 2k (2048x1080) version to fit on a t v.
Wikipedia:
4K resolution is a horizontal display resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels. For digital cinematography, it is 4096 × 2160 (DCI 4K), typically with a 256:135 (1.9:1) aspect ratio; for digital television, it is 3840 × 2160 (4K UHD), typically with a 16:9 (1.78:1) aspect ratio.
I think it’s fine. 160 px here and there is less than 5% difference.
Honestly, I stopped trying to understand them after 1080.
I’ve worked on broadcast for over a decade and up until recently is been almost exclusively 1080i that I’ve dealt with.
Which studios still shoot in 2k? Or use a 2k intermediate?
I remember when youtube basically only had one format and I’m pretty sure it was 240p lol.
Remember when 1080i was a thing? Now it’s all but dead beyond broadcast and cable TV (which is pretty much dead).
People used to say that 720p was better because it had a higher vertical resolution at any given moment due to being progressive scan, but IMO 1080i looked sharper for the most part unless there was a lot of motion in the scene. The resolution was high enough that the flickering from the interlaced images didn’t bother me. So I usually went with 1080i over 720p. Sports titles and games with a lot of action were the only time when I would go with 720p.
720p hits that sweet spot between file size and picture clarity so that’s my default preference for torrents.
Technology advances, something is cutting edge, then the standard, then outdated.
I don’t mind 720p at all, but I play a lot of old games and usually upscaling to 720p on PlayStation 2 games and stuff makes a tremendous difference.
Anything older, CRT filters. Bloom and interlacing make games like Super Metroid very eerie.
IMO at the same bitrate 720p looks leagues better than 1080p apples to apples. It’s my preferred trick for shitty internet connections since 720p just gets the job done still.
I still consider it HD lol
You and most porn sites.
No one wants to see all the gory details, though - it all happens in the minds fantasy
Personally, I think 4k 60 fps porn is better. You DO get so see the gory details. The stretch marks, moles, defects humans have.
That’s what makes people beautiful, not airbrushed nonsense.
Ugh, ppl have pores and peach fuzz! Its disgusting. --gooners, probably
Cartoons, absolutely. Live action, 1080p is perfect for 4k TVs without needing 4k stream and it saves GBs.
I remember when 480p was called Enhanced Definition.
I still have a widescreen ED CRT with an HDMI port in the garage, it’s the best Wii screen ever made.
It still is, but nobody cares anymore. At 16:9 1920x1080 is considered “Full High Definition,” and 3840x2160 (at minimum) is “Ultra High Definition,” at least in terms of their official marketing speak. The latter has mutated to include both 4K and 8K content somehow, apparently because the brainworms in the marketing department ran out of superlatives after “Ultra.”
Should’ve called 8K Iper High Definition
They should’ve hired tea industry execs. If the tea industry can come up with grades like “Special Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe”, they can come up with something beyond Ultra High Definition.
Maybe like this:
- High Definition (HD)
- Full High Definition (FHD)
- Ultra High Definition (UHD)
- Very Ultra High Definition (VUHD)
- Special Very Ultra High Definition (SVUHD)
- Full Special Very Ultra High Definition (FSVUHD or SVUHD1, both are acceptable)
Not that these grades would only apply to displays that don’t support picture-in-picture or split screen. Displays with those features (“broken” displays) would use the following equivalent grades instead:
- High Broken Definition (HBD)
- Full High Broken Definition (FHBD)
- Ultra High Broken Definition (UHBD)
- Golden Ultra High Broken Definition (GUHBD)
- Special Golden Ultra High Broken Definition (SGUHBD)
- Full Special Golden Ultra High Broken Definition 1 (FSGUHBD1)
We could just use the radio bands, just with definition instead of frequency.
High
Very high
Ultra high
Super high
Extremely high
Tremendously high- T = Television
- IT = Intelligent Television
- HIT = Highly Intelligent Television
- SHIT = Super Highly Intelligent Television
SSG3UIHD
Favourite Goku transformation, underappreciated by most.
What’s higher than ultra? “Godlike?” “Definitionmanjaro?”
Mega
MHD sounds like a new type of hallucinogen
All about aspect ratio, at a high aspect ratio 720 looks fine on a reasonably sized TV.
What is an example of a low and high aspect ratio?
Do you know what aspect ratio means?
I remember TVs that were “HD compatible” which means they were like 520p, but could downscale an HD signal.
Yeah I had one such 47" “HD Ready” plasma that did 848x480p. The pixels were so large you could see them but 720p content still liked good on it, and DVDs looked even better than they did on an HDTV due to the similar resolution of 720x480 that they output at. They were so much sharper on a display close to their native resolution.
remember when vhs only recorded 250 lines? remember when it was 240 by 320, remember when, fuck you…I remembeer when amber and greeen were the only colors…
…and yes, grandpa is pissed about your 256 color gradient…
