I still consider it HD lol
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Cartoons, absolutely. Live action, 1080p is perfect for 4k TVs without needing 4k stream and it saves GBs.
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."
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)
- T = Television
- IT = Intelligent Television
- HIT = Highly Intelligent Television
- SHIT = Super Highly Intelligent Television
SSG3UIHD
We could just use the radio bands, just with definition instead of frequency. High Very high Ultra high Super high Extremely high Tremendously high
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It still is.
720 = HD 1080 = Full HD
Then I think there's UHD, before they start labelling them as shortened numbers like 8k
Wut? ~~No~~
Update in italics: immediately after posting my comment I see we agree, I just missed it because I had expected a separator between the two formats. I'm going to let my comment be, because it can serve as a reference for others.
1080p = 1920x1080 = "Full HD"
720p = 1280x720 = "HD Ready", or at least according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution_standards "HD"
4K has to subtypes 4K UHD and DCI which is both 2160 lines, but UHD is 16:9= 3840 pixels wide, and DCI is slightly wider with 4096 pixel in a 256:135 format. But both are "4K"
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I remember the 720p vs 1080i wars ...
Interlacing is trash, fight me
Whoa there: I said "I remember", not that interlacing was good.
And interlacing is only "good"for old video games that leveraged its weirdness for blending pixels.
It is terrible as a video format.
Remember when your dvd player had a "progressive scan" button?
Like I could afford a DVD player
720p is still better than 1080i
I remember TVs that were "HD compatible" which means they were like 520p, but could downscale an HD signal.
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720p IS HD.
And 1080p is Full HD.
1440p is Quad HD.
2160p/4K is Ultra HD.
4320p/8K is also Ultra HD, for some bonus confusion.
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.
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...
720p hits that sweet spot between file size and picture clarity so that's my default preference for torrents.
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Standard definition, high definition, full high definition, ultra definition, AI upscaled ultra high definition, nuclear Holocaust definition, stone age definition
Don't forget enhanced definition.
Enhance.
i still go for 720 all the time because at a certain resolution, you're just starting to see the pimples, at not extra benefit.
It's still good on phone screens.
It's still good on PC monitors with astigmatism :')
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"HD ready"
I remember when youtube basically only had one format and I'm pretty sure it was 240p lol.
I still watch 360p on my phone lol.
My still functional xbmc media server never knew that because I couldn't afford the HD plugs.
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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 better 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.
the bitrate of yt 720p sucks
On a small enough screen it still is.
Having watched 480i content for so long, you better believe 720p felt HD.
These days, I mostly watch 1080p content because at the size/distance I'm watching, 4K just doesn't "buy" any more joy. But, I remember the first time we watched some 4K videos on a new 4K TV, and the nature ones looked like a window and not a screen from across the room.
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