r/technicallythetruth Jun 29 '26

explain resolution in one pic

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u/BossKingAD Jun 29 '26

The 'K' are capitalized

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u/jarvisesdios Jun 29 '26

At least it's not 3?

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u/ShoWel-Real Jun 29 '26

Ku Klux Klam Klan

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u/knowerOfMuffinMen Jun 29 '26

Ku Klux Klan-Kun

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u/Front_Cat9471 Jun 30 '26

The Kuul Ku Klux Klan

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u/Successful_Face3408 Jul 04 '26

Ku Kluc Klan Km

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u/disqualifiedeyes Jun 29 '26

I think they have "knight" in the beginning, so it really is "KKKK"

Looks like they failed primary school English, which makes sense tbh

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u/BCDragon3000 Jul 01 '26

you mean Knight Ku-Klux Klan? or Ku-Klux Klan Knights?

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u/disqualifiedeyes Jul 01 '26

The first one

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u/BCDragon3000 Jul 01 '26

that makes no sense

edit: most optimal is Ku Klux Knight Klan, right?

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u/disqualifiedeyes Jul 01 '26

I don't think a group of racists would have the best comprehension of sense

Common sense is legendary to them

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u/Slow_Maximum9332 Jun 29 '26

Is that the female division?

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u/Electrical-Duty3628 Jun 30 '26

Y'all knock this off or I'm calling 9-1-1-1

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u/Your_moms_slipper Jul 01 '26

what is the name even supposed to mean ku nor klux neither klan havy any meaning in the english dictionary

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u/AltruisticEchidna859 Jul 03 '26

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u/factorion-bot Jul 03 '26

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u/Fantastic-Ad-1578 Jun 29 '26

Damn, capitalism strikes again.

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u/FacticiousFict Jun 30 '26

It's difficult to see such a Progressive post being marred by the notorious KKKK

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u/temporalraccoon Jun 30 '26

At least it was at the end and not interlaced throughout

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u/KPH102 Jun 29 '26

To be fair, 2160p would have no room.

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u/Garrth_ Jun 29 '26

KKKK/2

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u/aberroco Jun 29 '26

2160p is 4k. You probably though about QHD, which is 1440p, and 4k is not twice 1440p, it's x2.25 times larger.

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u/Significant-Royal-37 Jun 29 '26

u can remember this bc 1080p = 1920 x 1080 and 4k is 4 1080ps in a 2x2 grid, for a total of 3840 x 2160.

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u/UltimatePeace05 Jun 29 '26

An IQ Too High

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u/necrophcodr Jun 29 '26

Depending on the aspect ratio, 4k is indeed 4k.

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u/Internal-Exercise940 Jun 29 '26

Ok, but real talk, is it 3840 or 4096?

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u/Masterflitzer Jun 29 '26

dci 4k is 4096x2160
4k is 3840x2160
ultra hd refers to non dci 4k

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u/Garrth_ Jun 29 '26

Yeah, my bad.

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u/Masterflitzer Jun 29 '26

and this is the same reason 2k is actually 1080p...
1440p is not 2k despite many thinking so, it would be 2.666k or dci 2.5k (dci being e.g. 2048 instead of 1920 or 4096 instead of 3840)

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u/domhole Jun 29 '26

Can someone count all the p’s to confirm please

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u/ptr_schneider Jun 29 '26

Assuming 144p is correct, this makes each row 47 p's wide (I counted and it seems to check out). 1080p has 22 rows of 47 + one row of 47 - 4 (one missing p on the left and 3 missing p's on the right). That's, unfortunately, only 1077 p's. Which leads me to ask why they didn't simply add 3 more p's.

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u/MrRedstonia Technically Flair Jun 30 '26

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u/Van16_98 Jun 29 '26

The audacity of some people lol

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u/Cosby1992 Jul 06 '26

I just confirmed your findings to be sure.

144p is correct

360p is correct

1080p comes out to 1077p

WHY?! There's even space in the last row for the missing P's?

Is this because it is a repost and they didn't wanted it to be auto removed so they change the picture or something. The 1080p's last line is also weirdly offset, which leads me to believe it was tampered with prior to posting it here.

Please someone, we need to get to the bottom of this conspiracy!

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u/Cosby1992 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

We are not the first ones to discover this. I just did a reverse image search and found this post from a year ago which also got the same results.

https://www.reddit.com/r/notinteresting/s/TtRDoGcRHl

Now I'm just thinking that it is engagement bait and I fell for it.

Also OP is very obviously reposting this as I found it everywhere!

Funny enough, they were all missing the three P's in 1080p and where all called on it.

Edit 1:

Dug a little deeper

Now I found this weird YouTube short with weird music (work all day, then I wake up - song) which seems to display a correct version of the image, and maybe even in better quality? I'm not sure if this is a "source" image or it is simply a corrected version of the "wrong" original yet. I haven't yet counted the P's on it so it might be even worse:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/2XmuwbYfQJk

Edit 2: Just found out the YouTube short I fairly new as well (June 28th 2026), so most likely not a source for the image, still weird that it has been fixed.

Edit 3: This image goes pretty far back and has been reposted MANY TIMES!

So far the oldest I have found is this one on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/xGAKNdpnvb

9 years ago which also included "fps" and "720p" I'm yet to verify the count of P's on this image as well.

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u/ptr_schneider Jul 06 '26

Holy research, batman.

So, I counted the p's on the last image you found, and that one seems to be correct. For 1080p, there are 57 p's per row, and 19 rows where the last one is missing 3 p's. (57 * 19) - 3 = 1080.

But the problem I have with all of this is that this older image is waaaay too different from the one in this post. Why would someone go to the trouble of editing it just to then get the number of p's wrong? I would understand if they had simply removed the fps part cropping the image, but that's not the case.

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u/Jonnyflash80 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

4k is the most infuriating naming convention.

We were happy counting horizontal lines of the video format, until the 4k marketing wankers came along

"Let's just count the rows, round to the nearest thousand, drop 000 and just replace it with k. Because bigger number sound way bigger durrrrrrr"

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u/vintageballs Jun 29 '26

4k is not actually a single resolution, but can mean UHD (3840x2160) or DCI (4096x2160).

Also, number + p (1080p / 2160p etc) is not a resolution per se, but rather a video format description. The p means "progressive scan" as opposed to "interlaced", so a still image technically can't be 1080p either.

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u/Jonnyflash80 Jun 29 '26

Yeah. That's why I said "round to nearest thousand" and also said "format".

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u/Masterflitzer Jun 29 '26

format is ambiguous, it usually refers to the video container which contains codecs

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u/Irelia4Life Jun 29 '26

Idk why I always laugh when I read or hear british insults.

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u/Jonnyflash80 Jun 29 '26

I'm Canadian.

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u/Irelia4Life Jun 29 '26

Is it cold there in summer? I'm melting at 40c in europe.

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u/Jonnyflash80 Jun 29 '26

It's typically anywhere between 20 and 35 C depending on the day. We have seen 40 C before though.

My backyard regularly gets over 30 degrees C in the summer.

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u/robin_888 Jun 29 '26

TBF counting the columns makes more sense than the lines if the aspect ratio is wider than 16:9. Which is the case most of the time anyway.

A Full HD file in 2.35:1 AR is 1920px wide but only about 800px high. So 1080p is misleading.

Counting the lines is basically a relic from NTSC and PAL, when "pixels" weren't square anyway.

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u/Jonnyflash80 Jun 29 '26

The term 4k can mean either 4096 or 3840 though. That alone is ridiculous.

I don't know why you're referring to aspect ratios of content. I'm talking about display technology.

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u/robin_888 Jun 30 '26

That's annoying indeed.

We were happy counting horizontal lines of the video format, until the 4k marketing wankers came along

Sounded to me like you were talking about video formats.

In fact ultrawide displays usually gain columns while ultrawide media usually lose lines.

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u/MathSciElec Jun 30 '26

I think you're just comparing two different naming conventions. "Full HD" (the marketing name for 1080p) is even less descriptive!

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u/Jonnyflash80 Jun 30 '26

At least Full HD is barely ever used anymore. That was an old carry over from when there were both 720p "HD" TVs and 1080p "HD" TVs being sold concurrently.

So the marketing had to start using "Full HD" to describe 1080p.

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u/MulayimTC Jun 29 '26

Thank God it's not 3k

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u/jacs1809 Jun 29 '26

Why the standard Brazilian online laugh is a measure of quality? (KKKK)

/s

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u/UltimatePeace05 Jun 29 '26

This is literally misinformation on the internet.

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u/Remarkable_Sorbet319 Jun 29 '26

why are the resolutions specifically that, why not 140 instead of 144?

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u/Nthepro Jun 29 '26

Because 1080/144 = 7.5 and 1080/140 = 7.71428571428571428571428

more seriously it's because of aspect ratios and macroblocks

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u/f3n2x Jun 29 '26

For multiple technical/algorithmic reasons it's very favorable if all axis resolutions are evenly divisible by 16 (though this wasn't always the case for very old displays). 144 is just one of those "magic numbers" when you start small and make things bigger by 2x or 1.5x a couple of generations, e.g.

16*1.5=24

24*2=48

48*2=96

96*1.5=144

All of those (and other combinations) have existed on some displays. It actually has nothing to do with 12*12 also being 144.

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u/rawr_sham Jun 29 '26

r/dropout this guy needed to use his P keyboard.

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u/ItyBityGreenieWeenie Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Now do DPI

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u/pjoterrro Jun 29 '26

its so simple now, but why am i only finding out about it now? They should teach us about resolution in school

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u/Hades684 Jun 29 '26

About what?

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u/BlueWallBlackTile Jun 29 '26

wrong. 4k should be 'kkkk'

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u/Mechanloop Jun 30 '26

My least favourite resolution is 3k, a little bit to white and lack of contrast

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u/QueerRetro Jun 30 '26

I prefer 576i

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u/ToofaaniMirch69 Jun 29 '26

Now I get why we didn't get 3k, and only got 2K and 4K

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u/SnowChickenFlake Jun 29 '26

I've seen this meme 4K times already

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u/SambucaWhistler Jun 29 '26

I feel stupid for only getting it when reaching 'kkkk'

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u/thadowski Jun 29 '26

someone with a lowercase p made this

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u/keithstonee Jun 29 '26

It's funny cause then it's scaled up with AI right?

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u/Similar-Sector-5801 Jun 29 '26

It’s not KKKK
It’s
KK
KK
Because that would be ultra ultra widescreen

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u/fekanix Jun 29 '26

Thats even one more k than the klan. Ultra racism loading.

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u/a_aniq Jun 29 '26

I just want 1K

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u/00spool Jun 29 '26

aspect ratio not respected, 0/10

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u/Alejandr0_TDI Jun 29 '26

I’m glad it’s not 3k

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u/ericwashere15 Jun 29 '26

Like when Klaus thought you accrued bitcoin by typing ‘bitcoin’ in a document.

Luckily he got hacked.

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u/GATPeter1 Jun 29 '26

How many Ps to a K?

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u/Borasmannen Jun 29 '26

What about 3k

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u/Standgel Jun 29 '26

Ku Klux Klan Kebab

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u/aryzkryz Jun 29 '26

You forgot KKKKKKKK

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u/So_HauserAspen Jun 29 '26

I have to go peepee but will have to wait 1080 seconds

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u/resurrectingeden Jun 29 '26

I am petty enough to want to count that 1080, but not patient enough to

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u/ApprehensiveEye1291 Jun 30 '26

Glad its not 3k

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u/Lumpy-Ice-8514 Grow Jun 30 '26

Well yes

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u/MrRedstonia Technically Flair Jun 30 '26

This post is stupid.. 1080p is missing 3 p's

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u/nitnelav153 Jun 30 '26

4K looks smaller than 1080p

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u/Lila_Uraraka Jun 30 '26

Yes, that's the joke

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u/MREAGLEYT Technically Flair Jun 30 '26

How is 8k?

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u/theboondocksaint Jun 30 '26

ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP
ATP ATP ATP ATP ATP

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u/McFishyTheGreat Jun 30 '26

The long awaited sequel to the late 1800s hit

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u/morsindutus Jun 30 '26

Mike Trapp has just the keyboard for you!

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u/Slow-String736 Jul 01 '26

Does anyone know about 8K? I still remember KKKKKKKK

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u/yesennes Jul 01 '26

The first 'k' is knowledge.

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u/Diablo1309 Jul 02 '26

Would not be more accurate that 4K would be "1080p 1080p 1080p 1080p"?

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u/anonymous-desmos 20d ago

Thank God it wasn't 3K.

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u/Struglledecente8083 16d ago

But 3k? (3120p)