News - Toshiba unveils Technicolor Certified Satellite P55t 4K laptop

[HEXUS]

Powerful aluminium finished laptop expected to become available next week for US$1,499.

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[Platinum]

I rage a little when I see "4k Ultra HD", 4k and Ultra HD are two different formats.
The screen on this laptop is Ultra HD, not 4k, Tosh should know better, however the marketing bods probably don't care.

4k = 4096x2160

UHD = 3840x2160

[Biscuit]

4K is more catchy though, catchy sells and its the television manufacturers driving the move to UHD/4K. The lines are all very blurry for it still.

[CampGareth]

4K is more catchy though, catchy sells and its the television manufacturers driving the move to UHD/4K. The lines are all very blurry for it still.

I agree that it's more catchy but the lines really aren't blurry at all. DCI 4K is a standard that applies to cinemas and requires massive processing because we use 8 bits normally not 12 in consumer stuff. Cinemas advertised that their films were 4K and they were right to do so, and people learnt that 4K means shiny shiny, more detail.

The problem started when TV marketers were advertising higher resolution TVs and used the fact that people already have a vague idea that 4K is higher quality, instead of using the standards they themselves created earlier (HD, FHD). Blame the marketers, get them to be consistent. Consumers shouldn't know about movie production standards (2K was a thing while we were dealing with FHD, did anyone even know about it?) and TV marketers should stick to HD, FHD, and UHD.

[edzieba]

It's annoying enough when tech sites that should know better label UHD as 4K, but it's even worse when they drink the marketing coolaid and parrot made-up labels like '2.5k' or '3k' that have utterly no meaning outside of marketing departments.

[Biscuit]

I agree that it's more catchy but the lines really aren't blurry at all. DCI 4K is a standard that applies to cinemas and requires massive processing because we use 8 bits normally not 12 in consumer stuff. Cinemas advertised that their films were 4K and they were right to do so, and people learnt that 4K means shiny shiny, more detail.

The problem started when TV marketers were advertising higher resolution TVs and used the fact that people already have a vague idea that 4K is higher quality, instead of using the standards they themselves created earlier (HD, FHD). Blame the marketers, get them to be consistent. Consumers shouldn't know about movie production standards (2K was a thing while we were dealing with FHD, did anyone even know about it?) and TV marketers should stick to HD, FHD, and UHD.

I work in broadcast so i understand the standards, but even ourselves, the manufacturers for broadcast infrastructure, systems integrators, production houses etc etc.... all refer to it as 4k regardless of the required elements.

I just don't think its worth getting annoyed about.

[Biscuit]

Or it'll be like the hard/soft 'G' in GIF all over again. Or where a gigabyte is measured in binary or decimals. (Should be binary!)

Yeah but now we have GiB and GB to help us define that

[CampGareth]

Get over it. DCI 4K (if you're being pedantic) isn't 16:9 and isn't normal the final output resolution in the consumer space. UHD is the 16:9 cropped version of DCI 4K and is therefore the more appropriate resolution to use if you want to watch something 'in 4K resolution'.

Would be nice if the 4K we get was really over 4,000 pixels wide. But it's isn't, so all we can do is get over it and not rage too much.

Or it'll be like the hard/soft 'G' in GIF all over again. Or where a gigabyte is measured in binary or decimals. (Should be binary!)

Eh, I'll agree we shouldn't rage too much, it'd just be nice if we could correct the media. As it is I'm in a position to want DCI 4K (though very rarely actually use 12-bit video, it just isn't available), so I'm currently like a cat chasing a laser pointer, so many DCI 4K products and as soon as I get ahold of them bam they're actually UHD and I'm chasing after a red dot again. That kinda irritates me That and consumers shouldn't know the details of what's going on, you shouldn't care your phone uses MIPI interface for the screen, you just need to know angry birds will work, same thing with DCI 4K.

[uksnapper]

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