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So get this, a guy I know whom is constantly bashing on about technology just went on another spree pretty much splurting out "What about this 4K nonsense ! I just want to be able to use my XboX to play games. I do not care about 4K, I just want to play my games without them looking horrible !". Last week he was ranting about how in his Call of Duty game ( quote ) "the pixel density seems to go up and down depending on the level" ( he is right you know, it does ) ... So I felt compelled to ask wether he knows what 4K actually is. It resulted in me smiling and facepalming at the same time. As if my facial muscles betrayed me telling me "Just facepalm and smile it off buddy... ... smile it off..."
Sunday, 25-Jan-15 16:38:47 UTC from web-
@critialcloudkicker did he not know? (Oh god I hope I know what it is... its a resolution right? something by 4000 pixels?
Sunday, 25-Jan-15 16:41:33 UTC from web-
@awesam17 Short answer, yes. Long answer : not really, let me explain. Back when RAM was extremely small we went from 1 Byte to 2, to 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048. To keep it managable for the mouth they started to call it Kilobytes ( 1 Kilobyte = 1024 Bytes ) ... So 4K monitors ( 4 Kilopixels ) are 4096 actual pixels on the horizontal axis. Technically anyway. Since The Standard of 4K is 4096X2160. However the average consumer does not know this and will be sold a TV/Monitor with a ???x2160 resolution following the popular 16:9 aspect ratio for consumer TV's/monitors ( http://pny.lv/b2jg ... this is aspect ratio ) meaning 3840X2160. Which is not actually 4K at all. But it all boils down to "more pixels in a monitor" anyway. No reason to fight over it, although it will not stop average consumers to throw a tantrum once they find out I'd reckon
Sunday, 25-Jan-15 17:13:43 UTC from web
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