Both get referred to as 2K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K_resolution

I would prefer 2560×1440 to be called 2K5 but the industry is too comfortable with 2-letter resolutions now.

No, 1080p is 2K because its width is 1920 (close to 2000), 2160p is 4K (3840 px wide), 4320p is 8K (7680 px wide). It’s not 1K, 4K and 16K.

The town name and state is also very easy to figure out, and you can easily verify it by checking where Musk will be holding a town hall today. For each of the most violently crossed-out words, D███ and C███████, there is just one first name matching whatever is visible. Yes, I copied and pasted letters from elsewhere and the width is correct.

Greedy marketers just wanted to show a higher number… That’s why they switched from height to width, too.

By having seen a low-end 2017 laptop?

1080 rows of 1920 pixels each
1920 columns of 1080 pixels each

https://www.xkcd.com/1889/

If 2K referred to the number of pixels, it would look like this:

FullHD is actually a little over 2M pixels.

takes the aspect ratio from 3:4 to 16:9. so pixel density is barely better

What? Screen aspect ratio and pixel density are quite different things. Most FullHD TVs are widescreen and have pixel density below 36 ppi, and while high-DPI 4:3 screens are rare, they are not impossible in any way.

The terms “2K” and “4K” were totally commonplace since about 2010, although not as prevalent as 1080p. I hate how the video industry switched to marketing horizontal resolution (and rounding it up) just to make the number look big.

I know the difference but there are lots of people who aren’t really savvy with video technology. I wouldn’t blame them for thinking that ［🢐 １０８０ 🢒］ is just barely better than 1024x768.

2k and 4k does not refer to horizontal resolution but the number of pixels

Nope. 1920×1080 is 2 073 600 pixels, which would be 2M. “2K” is the horizontal resolution (1920) rounded up. A screen with literally 2K pixels would be around 50×40, lower than the crappiest handheld consoles.

No. They will just use the $10 card and leave. They will prey on the fact that “get a gift card for your computer troubles” is something a legitimate company has done.

Buy a $10 Xbox gift card and send us the code so that we can activate it. Then you get back to the shop and get $20 in cash - $10 for returning the card and $10 from us. We’ll pay the tax, too.

U+0D9E ඞ AMOGUS

I have compiled all the “iota” Unicode search results so you can stop this thread.

U+0196 Ɩ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
U+0269 ɩ LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA
U+027F ɿ LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED R WITH FISHHOOK
U+0345 ͅ COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI
U+037A ͺ GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI
U+038A Ί GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
U+0390 ΐ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS
U+0399 Ι GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
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U+03AF ί GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
U+03B9 ι GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
U+03CA ϊ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA
U+1D7C ᵼ LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH STROKE
U+1DA5 ᶥ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL IOTA
U+1F30 ἰ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI
U+1F31 ἱ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA
U+1F32 ἲ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
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U+1F34 ἴ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
U+1F35 ἵ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
U+1F36 ἶ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
U+1F37 ἷ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
U+1F38 Ἰ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI
U+1F39 Ἱ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA
U+1F3A Ἲ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
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U+1FD1 ῑ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH MACRON
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U+1FD6 ῖ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PERISPOMENI
U+1FD7 ῗ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND PERISPOMENI
U+1FD8 Ῐ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH VRACHY
U+1FD9 Ῑ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH MACRON
U+1FDA Ὶ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA
U+1FDB Ί GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA
U+2129 ℩ TURNED GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
U+2373 ⍳ APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL IOTA
U+2378 ⍸ APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL IOTA UNDERBAR
U+2C27 Ⱗ GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
U+2C29 Ⱙ GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS
U+2C57 ⱗ GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
U+2C59 ⱙ GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS
U+A646 Ꙇ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
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U+1D6B0 𝚰 MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL IOTA
U+1D6CA 𝛊 MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL IOTA
U+1D6EA 𝛪 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
U+1D704 𝜄 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL IOTA
U+1D724 𝜤 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
U+1D73E 𝜾 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL IOTA
U+1D75E 𝝞 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL IOTA
U+1D778 𝝸 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL IOTA
U+1D798 𝞘 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
U+1D7B2 𝞲 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL IOTA
U+1E027 𞀧 COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
U+1E029 𞀩 COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS

Is this by Inspirobot? Its most-upvoted quote on r/inspirobot uses the same image.

First sentence of my post, for this very reason – they own the franchise, after all. The law may also change the other way but that’s very unlikely to happen in the US within 50 years.

I wonder if they could develop a system of draconian DRM (only their own theatres with metal detectors, personalized online streams…) and mildly edit movies every few decades so that they can destroy the original and effectively renew copyright. The gaming industry’s always-online DRM makes nuking a release possible but copyright lasts for about 20 console generations (we’ve only had 8 so far!) so they don’t even have to do that.

I think that at least the sub-title “Episode IV: A New Hope” was added in that DVD release… Anyway, a “4K77” scan of a 1977 film reel distributed directly by the studio exists, it’s just noisy and needed color correction.

find an original film print and have it scanned

The 4K77 project did just that, scan and color correction to reverse fading, and effectively no other processing so they cannot claim copyright. Arguably, Harmy’s Despecialized Edition cannot either, even if the original becomes public domain, as it could be argued that their effort only served a technical purpose. I don’t think you can scan, upscale and denoise Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney, 1928) and claim copyright on that even if you do it by hand.

Interesting… Too bad a right-holder can do minor edits to their work and effectively extend copyright (which is already very long in my opinion) if they nuke the previous version. Lucas was surprisingly successful at that, and I think game studios or other creators could do that today too with their aggressive DRM tactics.

Thank you, great point!

Finally, I can calmly watch the performance of my stock portfolio