Pemalite said:
maxleresistant said:
HD, High Defiinition is also a marketing gimmick.
Everything is, it's all products, and it's just names, at the time 1080p was the best we could do, it was the top quality, so they named it full.
And to be honest, 720p has always been a little wonky, whereas 1080p is where it really starts to be high quality.
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It's certainly a marketing term. A gimmick it is not. It's actually usefull. And it doesn't mean it's a useless term either. A Full HD display represents a display that is superior to a HD display in terms of resolution.
Also. We could actually exceed 1080P back when 1080P wen't mainstream. Professional markets had 4k displays as far back as 2003 with some NEC panels, they actually had to run two 1080P inputs via DVI to the display, each rendering 1920x1080 in Portrait.
Also... We had 1080P CRT monitors back when console gamers were still stuck on 240P consoles during the Playstation 1/Nintendo 64 era.
And during the Playstation 2 era the PC was starting to dabble in Tessellation. A technique we wouldn't see in full force untill this console generation.
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I was talking about the name, not the technology itself. The term High Definition, is totaly arbitrary, and the fact that they created the SD term too.
As for you 4K in 2003, that's totally irrelevant, I'm talking about products aimed at the general consumer. We could also make giant screen like in timesquare, but nobody was trying to sell it to you to play Smash Bros on it at home. So like I said, they chose the term FullHD, because it was the best at the time.
