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Old 06-01-2017, 09:20 AM   #106
Softsynth
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Originally Posted by EvilDragon View Post
Yeah, WT is not wrong. That Dell is not a 4K monitor in the TRUE sense of the word -> having 4 times the pixel density of a regular 1080p monitor. It is just 4 1080p ("1K") monitors in one.
People are confusing DPI with pixel count. I know it gets confusing with all the marketing BS. 4k refers to resolution only, not DPI.

1080p is not 1k either (you could think of 720p being roughly 1k resolution).
1080p (1080x1920) is just shy of 2k (2k is 2048x1080).

Last edited by Softsynth; 06-01-2017 at 06:01 PM. Reason: Cut extra waffle
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