Resolution - Not Just a Number as Fast As Possible 

My new years resolution is 1440p

"it's so Big, and you are so Close to it..." -Linus

Here are a couple suggestions for episodes! Thank you so much: - Cabling - ports, active cabling, proprietary solutions, and theoretical speeds vs. real speeds - Audio fidelity - DACs, whatever else really matters - Gamma, Hue, Color, and Contrast (to finish off Resolution and Bit Rate)

To be fair, they didn't say "Just a number", they said "It's a number."

But linus, the human eye can't see past 24 fps anyway, so wouldn't it make more sense to reduce the frame rate to allow for larger resolutions? lol :D jk

Please do a fast as possible on the various types of video outputs. VGA, HDMI, the various types of DVI,and the last one which isn't an acronym. Tell us the pros and cons of each and how they differ from one another.

"F***ing Blue Shells!!"....holding a PS3 controller..

Even though I know exactly what resolution is I still found this video very informative

I wish developers would give us a choice between say 720P 60FPS & 1080P 30FPS. I would really love that.

Lol, love the TotalBiscuit pop-in.

Personally i think they should lower the resolution to 720p so they may get some more decent FPS, seriously 30fps is bad from a PC point of view.

2:33 TotalBiscuit cameo.

I wonder why 1080p isn't known as 2K and the 2K we know is 2.5K or 1440p.

"Resolution is just a number" T-Shirt must happen! Please Linus, please. Also that TotalBiscuit pop up make me laugh for a very long time :D

Resolutions aren't confined by the weakest link. If all the components don't match exactly, you get less than the weakest link. Projecting a 720p image onto a 1080p monitor is _worse_ than projecting an 720p image on a 720p monitor.

I remember Linus talking about this on the WAN show and I think that is where the shirt that says, "Resolution is just a number" originated from. I already knew about the topic in this video but nice job!

720p on consoles always seem to have a blur built in to make the jaggies go away. 1080p is much better if you want to avoid jaggies and not blur the image.

Linus, you've got a passion for doing this, and it shows in your videos. keep it up.

2:33 A wild TotalBiscuit appears. lol

2:33 A wild TB appears! Attack -> Use "Adjustable FOV". Attack super-effective.

As you so wanted it, here is my pony comment, Sandvich is best pony.

Thank you for doing this, not because I didn't know what resolution is, but because it made my day reading the title.

Price is just a number.

Sneaky brit in the video :D Also I didn't know the fifth wall could be broken, let alone even exist. Thanks for proving me wrong.

shutter stock seems like a complete rip-off and is way too over priced for what it actually does.Like it is only a huge data base of pictures and should be free like Google images or at least a lot cheaper .

Loved that TB sliding up @ 2:35

Ok. I did not expect Twilight at the end. XD

A pony is a small horse (Equus ferus caballus). Depending on context, a pony may be a horse that is under an approximate or exact height at the withers, or a small horse with a specific conformation and temperament. There are many different breeds. Compared to other horses, ponies often exhibit thicker manes, tails and overall coat, as well as proportionally shorter legs, wider barrels, heavier bone, thicker necks, and shorter heads with broader foreheads. The word "pony" derives from the old French poulenet, meaning foal, a young, immature horse, but this is not the modern meaning; unlike a horse foal, a pony remains small when fully grown. However, on occasion, people who are unfamiliar with horses may confuse an adult pony with a foal. The ancestors of most modern ponies developed small stature due to living on the margins of livable horse habitat. These smaller animals were domesticated and bred for various purposes all over the northern hemisphere. Ponies were historically used for driving and freight transport, as children's mounts, for recreational riding, and later as competitors and performers in their own right. During the Industrial Revolution, particularly in Great Britain, a significant number were used as pit ponies, hauling loads of coal in the mines.

ok then ... PONIES!!!!

Having an IT background myself im able to explain in detail to what resolution does towards the user experiance etc. Yet.. im still learning more here, awsome vids!

LOL @ TOTAL BISCUIT POPPING UP. Where's the FOV slider?

i lost it when you make totalbiscuit poped up in the corner, i couldnt stop laughing thats why i love you linus, or whoever edited this video lol

2500$ A YEAR FOR PICTURES?! NO FUCKING WAY.

Totalbiscuit popping up made me burst out laughing.. well played.. you have earned yourself a subscribe

Talking about resolution and yet the video is only 720p :P I have also seen a video with 1440p option available. But I don't know if that's still available. Did RU-vid kill 1080p? Anyway, for normal browsing, working or reading on the computer, higher resolution is really better, but on games, I've compared 768p and 1080p on my FHD laptop screen, and makes a little difference, and will make little difference on a TV as well. That said, I'd rather have 720p @60fps than 1080p @ 30fps. That's why we need graphics options on consoles! People are not dumb to switch it!

Games need much higher resolutions than movies because of aliasing. That's what supersampling or downsampling does. Rendering a game in a higher resolution to downscale the result to the output resolution for reducing aliasing artifacts.

2:30 Random Totalbiscuit LOL

I now love the editor of these videos for the TB pop in

720p, 30 fps immersive cinematic experience

With games, I would say resolution is more important as the content has more contrasting colours and sharper edges. That's also why game footage looks terrible on RU-vid where chroma subsampling is used. With movies and photos on the other hand, the content tends to be "smoother". There's less energy in the higher frequencies, so pixel resolution is less influential.

Peasants, listen up.

When it comes to TV across the room, if you need glasses, 1080p is probably the max you need to go. My problem is when size is quoted without resolution - for so long there were 12" through to 15" screens that were all 1024*768 (Why waste my money on the larger screen that doesn't have any more pixels?). I'm on a real 2k monitor right now, using a native font way small. The digit "1" is 7 pixels high and 3 pixels wide. I use this micro-font because I need maximum screen estate to show as much information as possible (and that's across 6 monitors! If you need glasses for upclose, don't bother trying to use my computer.

Money is just a number.

It's funny because during that time, you guys were ranting on that comment of Ubisoft. But actually, it is true. Resolution (technically) is really just a number that measures the number of pixels of the width and height. And today, resolution isn't such a priority. You prefer 21:9 Ultrawides over 4K UHD monitors. People would rather game at 1440p with better details than at 4K. In cameras, megapixels doesn't say about the quality of the camera.

Shutterstock is useless . Google images

If we let this "resolution is just a number" thing slide, then we're looking at shit like "graphics is just a word" or "gameplay is just a word" or god forbid "price is just a number".

LMFAO! @ 2:30

5:05 Twilight Sparkle making a small cameo at the end? Intriguing...

Why don't you tell to your subscribers the display size standards for each resolution?! You know that BIG resolutions are just marketing,right?! Where the real standard is that 1080p is only for displays bigger than 50" I don't need 1080p on my 19" display. The qualitty of my 19" display at 1440x900 (native) is the same qualitty seen on your 24" - 27" 1080p (native) display. But in the last 7 years "they" "changed" that rule so "they" can sell more stuff. 1080p on a mobile phone display..give me a break.

Do one on IGZO! But yeah, I do love some high resolutions. So easy to tell 1080p and 1440p even from standard monitor distance.

Now every console peasant is a resolution and fps expert lol "peasants can't monitor their frame rates or set their resolution." Now they know everything about it lol these comments make me lol

Resolution is just a number... Ubisoft is a SMARTASS company! I would have never thought of that!

sorry, i think you say 200$ a month? that's crazy

I think it is just that with the new consoles people were expecting 1080p because people now have HD TV's and we wanted consoles outputting native to these devices.

5:05 brohoof /)

Totalbiscuit rising up in the corner there. Beautiful.

WHOS WATCHING IN 2032

You should make a Techquickie about Die shrink, why its happening and why you should care. The whole "14nm process this, or XXnm process that" is confusing to a lot of people!

Lol sadly i'm watching this on 144p :-( (Thank you Crappy South African Internet ISP)

nother great video. I like the comedy you're adding in recently

This guy just leaves me with more questions

it's always worth it to wait through the adds!

Loved the TotalBisquit reference Linus, nice one :)

Loving the TB reference.

respect that someone on the editing side put in a proper MLP sound effect also linus your hair is kinda cool :)

Plus all the +1s for Strong Bad reference. "The pixels are as big as hams!"

Well, for myself and my CRT, resolution is a function of 3 numbers - Pixel Clock, HSync, and VSync. My only restrictions are that HSync must be lower than 95khz, and VSync must be between 50-120hz. Within that span, my monitor can display ANY resolution I could possibly want(though in practice my GPU cannot produce some of the more insane resolutions, and the monitor would flicker like a dying flourescent lamp at particularly insane resolutions above 2048*1536), and produce them all with the same clarity.

PC monitor is 24 inch wide at 2 feet away. TV is 42 inch wide at 6 feet away. 720p vs 1080p does make a difference if youre at a respectable distance.

You always sneak the sponsor in so smoothly

That last sentence sums up my attitude of youtube. Props to Linus guys.

Based Linus. Who I always think reminds me of Link from the Zelda games whenever I see that little earring.

god, that totalbicuit cameo killed me

These high Resolution screens are usless for gaming. I had a 1600P 30in, and the pixel density is no better than a 23in 1080P. + 1600P had a 7ms response and 60HZ. It felt slow and cumbersome. 1080P 144HZ 1ms > 1600P 60hz 7ms.

Too good, very good articulation, short and sweet.

I've watched this video 4 times... Never finished it to see that in the corner... Not even going to question it :)

Just for clearance, this video is about "image resolution" Then there's display resolution, that is just the number we're all familiar with.

Hey dude. Thanks for making this videos, they are realy helpfull. I allways learn something I didn't known before.

you can point out that highering the resolution after this "retina" point is useless. Say for example those 4k phones. It's actually really bad to do that, because it drains the battery and costs more to make, without giving ANY improvement at all. But it looks good on marketing paper.

That was some pretty awesome video editing lol I love the lower resolution examples!

to me, higher resolution is more important than higher details. so for example, i will rather play a game in 1080p with medium details than in 720p with high details. and if i sometimes have a 1440p screen, i won't go with lower res that 1440p.

Linus will never let the "just a number" thing die

Love the Totalbiscuit 'cameo' :P

I actually prefer a solution like the one you guys talked in the Wan show. (If I used consoles which i don't) A toggle between quality and performance. (60 fps at 720p or 30fps at 1080p)

Totalbiscuit is lurking somewhere in this video.

You should talk about the "Soap Opera" effect on your next video. I actually like the effect tbh but, I would to have it explained and would like unbiased opinions on it.

i really like how linus just smack talks his sponsors flaws. and im suprised he can get away with it too...hue or is this thinking i have wrong?

FEEDBACK ON VIDEO: I feel like there's something wrong with the camera that is recording Linus or it's being edited strangely because it looks really strange. Linus looks red and not very clear. Besides that; great video.

Keep this up linus ! love these vids !

Image resolution makes the image sharper, in other words, you will be able to see more of the image. It won't make the image any good - as we can all agree Mario Bros still looks as good as Wolfenstein or Fallout 4 for example, because processing power and screen quality is not relevant, art design is, and the technical aspects of hardware and screen come secondary to that.

It's lucky that the show is called Tech Quickie. A crossover with Total Biscuit would made it hours long especially if you guys add FOV into the discussion.

loved the surprise Total Biscuit haha

Other's New Year's Resolution: "Be better." My New Year's Resolution: 640x480

Thanks, Linus, For another Great Video

"Resolution is just a Number!" Best statement ever :D

The way you used Totalbuscuit there made me laugh xD

Welcome to 2023 where resolution is just a number... accompanied with random upscaling setting preset

I really like the high resolution of 6016x4000 on my camera, I find new things in the images (when looking closer) that I didn't even know was there (when I took the picture) to crop out for more interesting images at lower resolution.

I am runing 24" monitor with 1920x1080 resolution and I am verry happy with that resolution, I love it I don't want lower resolution only higher. :)

You didn't explain the difference between analog and digital displays in showing non-native resolutions. It's especially the LCD-type displays that don't like resolutions that they weren't designed for.

love techquickie. so much knooooowledge!