It still is, but nobody cares anymore. At 16:9 1920x1080 is considered "Full High Definition," and 3840x2160 (at minimum) is "Ultra High Definition," at least in terms of their official marketing speak. The latter has mutated to include both 4K and 8K content somehow, apparently because the brainworms in the marketing department ran out of superlatives after "Ultra."
It still is.
720 = HD 1080 = Full HD
Then I think there's UHD, before they start labelling them as shortened numbers like 8k
I still consider it HD lol
720p IS HD.
I remember the 720p vs 1080i wars ...
I remember TVs that were "HD compatible" which means they were like 520p, but could downscale an HD signal.
remember when vhs only recorded 250 lines? remember when it was 240 by 320, remember when, fuck you....I remembeer when amber and greeen were the only colors....
Standard definition, high definition, full high definition, ultra definition, AI upscaled ultra high definition, nuclear holocaust definition, stone age definition
It's still good on phone screens.
On a small enough screen it still is.
"HD ready"
I don't mind 720p at all, but I play a lot of old games and usually upscaling to 720p on PlayStation 2 games and stuff makes a tremendous difference.
Anything older, CRT filters. Bloom and interlacing make games like Super Metroid very eerie.
Remember when 1080i was a thing? Now it's all but dead beyond broadcast and cable TV (which is pretty much dead).
People used to say that 720p was better because it had a higher vertical resolution at any given moment due to being progressive scan, but IMO 1080i looked sharper for the most part unless there was a lot of motion in the scene. The resolution was high enough that the flickering from the interlaced images didn't bother me. So I usually went with 1080i over 720p. Sports titles and games with a lot of action were the only time when I would go with 720p.
I remember when 480p was called Enhanced Definition.
I still have a widescreen ED CRT with an HDMI port in the garage, it’s the best Wii screen ever made.
1280 × 720 was "HD ready"
1920 × 1080 was "Full HD"
I always thought "HD ready" was a bit of a marketing scam.
720p hits that sweet spot between file size and picture clarity so that's my default preference for torrents.
the bitrate of yt 720p sucks
I still watch 360p on my phone lol.
In my opinion 1920x1080 should be the baseline "standard definition" nowadays.
My first computer screen was 40col by 24 row of text, with 8x8 pixel characters. So 320 by 192, but you could not use it as canvas, just as characters. You could redefine characters, but not enough to make a real pixel display.
Technology advances, something is cutting edge, then the standard, then outdated.
I remember when youtube basically only had one format and I'm pretty sure it was 240p lol.
Having watched 480i content for so long, you better believe 720p felt HD.
These days, I mostly watch 1080p content because at the size/distance I'm watching, 4K just doesn't "buy" any more joy. But, I remember the first time we watched some 4K videos on a new 4K TV, and the nature ones looked like a window and not a screen from across the room.
If its not sports or something where you're watching a tiny subject on the screen, there is no reason for more than 720p.
Literally never
Do I remember? I'm fucking 60, I remember everything y'all ask about and much more. I remember when my 16" 1024 X 768 monitor died and I rushed to Staples before they closed to pay $400 for a 14" monitor, which was as much as I could afford at that moment. But, how far back do you want to go? MS-DOS 2.0 on a 12" amber monitor (I didn't like green)? I was there.
My current "big" TV is a 1920 X 1080 14-year-old 55" Toshiba dumb TV.
I got a 27" 4K monitor a few months ago, when my old monitor died. I have my second, old 1920 x 1080 monitor next to it. Yes, I can tell the difference, but only in text, not in video.
I wouldn't mind having a 100" OLED 4K TV, but for two things. I don't want to pay for it, but I would pay for it, except I'm afraid it would die in a couple of years, because my experience has been that new appliances are crap. So, I'll just stick with my old TV, and be happy that it's much better than my 27" Sharp CRT it replaced.
Now excuse me while I go look at new TVs.
Pepperidge Farms about to start needing regular colonoscopies. 👀
But you need 4k so that you can see the peach fuzz on a female character to fuel an incel rant.
Also, if you didn't spend a months wages on a monitor and game at less than 60fps you might as well poke your eyes out.
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