Hi,
Its good to see so much information about display in one place.

I am a software tester for a windows based application, we faced High DPI issue for our application in windows 10 machine, also we are not satisfied with solution provided by Microsoft.

Our developer fixed this High DPI issue for our application. I am searching for suggestions to optimize the testing time.

How to test this with all the resolution and scaling optimally?
Can we skip some resolutions for testing?

Is it possible to ensure just by testing in few resolution and scaling? or all the combination needs to be tested?

Hi, i am going to shoot an animation for a short movie. The director told me, We are using 1920 X1080 pixels. i plan to shoot the animation with a still camera, horizontal of course and i wonder what will people see from the paper after it is cut to the right proportions by the editor? It will be edited to 1920 X 1080…. if on my paper i use 20″ as an horizontal bar, how high need the image go? Thank you I hope my question is not too confusing and english is not my first language, i hope it is not too bad.

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Very helpful article for someone who knows nothing about computers!! This really helped me determine what I would like in a laptop!

I have a FHD monitor (1920x1080p) with 16:9 Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR),
But I like to play an old game and I’m used to playing it in 4:3 PAR.
So I changed my standard monitor settings from Full Screen(16:9) to 4:3 by TV’s remote control and it worked.
After that I checked my desktop settings and it stayed at 1920x1080p,
After that I even checked my ingame settings and it also stayed at 1920x1080p, so it works right??
I also tried to change my ingame settings from 1920x1080p to 1440x1080p, PAR stayed the same but I think there is a difference in the quality of resolution BUT I AM NOT SURE!
So my question here is: Is it really possible to play in 1920x1080p resolution on a 4:3 PAR monitor settings or my eyes are just tricking my into thinking it is the same but my game really changes the resolution to 1440x1080p without my knowing??
To simplify my question:Is it possible to pair 1920x1080p resolution with 4:3 Pixel Aspect Ratio?
Thanks in forward!

I’m looking for a new small TV about 24 or 28″. Some say Picture Quality 50hz, others say 200ppi. Which is better?

Can someone upgrade his/her screen resolution?

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I’ve been in the industry a long time, and unfortunately the current colloquial usage of “2K” has morphed into what FHD is (or the 1/4 “4K”).

We can blame this cluster-F on the TV industry who simply will not listen to what’s been hammered out over time for terminology.

You list “2K” as two different resolutions (2048×1080, and 2048×1536). Neither is used, particularly the former.

Where the TV and monitor industry YET AGAIN locked horns was this concept of identifying a monitor first by vertical resolutions and then switching to horizontal resolutions. Oy, did that confuse the public. What they first knew of as 1080 (vertical) was now called colloquially being called 2K (it’s 1920 across) because 4K now meant 3840 across (instead of the original 4096, just shoot me). So “2K” no longer means (it rarely did anyway) 2048 across.

Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. What a mess!

So at the very least, I’d suggest one of three things:
1. Punt the 2048×1080 reference. I’ve never seen it used in practice, and I don’t think it’s used unless it’s a half-driven 4096x monitor.
2. Put a strong reference in there that 2K resolutions are a source of confusion—-people are viewing it has the FHD (full HD, or just now HD) resolution of 1920×1080.
3. Pull all reference to 2K out all together and stick to 1080p. It would be like referring to the 5K monitors that show up. Oye.

Otherwise people might end up having entirely the wrong conversation with the grunts at Best Buy.

Otherwise, thanks for the article.

Very nice article

In a video is can we give both 4:3 & 16:9 Aspect ratio

hi gentle men I was read your description given on kiosk resolutions.Thanks But I have question on resolution and orientation(landscape and portrait)
1.is there relation between resolution and orientation?
2.is there different between resolution 1920*1080 and 1080*1920?
3.please give me brief relation about resolution and orientation?

My church projector is set at a 16:9 ratio. How do I make my presentations so that they will show full screen without the black bars on side or bottom?

what is the maximum and usual resolution of lcd .led and plasma screen

Thank you for this tutorial! It cleared all my questions about displays.

I wanna know what is the cause that the video can’t play on higher resolution than 1080HD? The streaming is moving and the sound is out but the picture is not moving? is it related to my system? anyway I’m watching this from my pc.

Well, after seeing the minor typo corrections suggested above, I am still impressed by the clarity of the overall writing, and the lack of common spelling and grammatical errors that are so common on so many sites nowadays. It was a relief to read clear, technically-oriented material that not once confused plural/possessives, misused (or abused) apostrophes, or screwed up acronyms and less-commonly-used terms. Kudos for your writing skills.
And the rest of the article had the details & technical info I was looking for.

Oh, except for one thing… you might want to add the total pixel count for each of the 5 resolutions you listed… for instance: “720p = 1280 x 720 [921,600 pixels] – is usually known as… “. I added the total pixel count (TPC) for each one, and it was interesting to note that although the resolutions step up by significant fractions, the TPC counts roughly double, and eventually quadruple, as screens get ever finer resolutions.

Your review is limited to the current market of LCD monitors.

10 years back, I had a high end 4:3 19″ CRT that was running at 25?? x ???? resolution. Frankly, I was seriously annoyed when I “upgraded” to a LCD monitor after the “magic smoke escaped” from the CRT. The LCD was such a huge step down in image quality and resolution from the CRT. I really wish I could go back …

This has absolutely no affect on color at all, right? If I render out a video in both 1080p and 1080i, the only difference is how the lines come across the screen?