Screen Resolution And Their Types

Hello friends you have heard one of the word screen resolution such as HD, Full HD, etc while buying or seeing the features of smartphone, tablet, computers, laptop or smart television. Here we provide you with some of the basic knowledge, so that you can easily understand about this topic. 

Screen Resolution and Pixels:

In order to understand about screen resolution we need to first understand the exact and basic meaning of term pixel. So firstly we have to know about pixel in order to understand  screen resolution.

What is pixel?

Screen of any devices whether it is smartphone, tablet,  computers, laptop or smart television are made up of small components known as pixel. It is the smallest components which can generate colors. In one pixel there are three small pixel known as sub pixel. These sub pixel consist of three color commonly known as Red, Green and Blue (RGB) color. These colors are universal colors which is capable of combining and generating new colors. So pixel use colors mixing technology to appear different colors in the screen.

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• What is PPI? How to Calculate? is it importannt

what is screen resolution?

Screen view of mobile

Screen resolution is the number of pixels appear on horizontal and vertical axis in the screen. Let us take an example of mobile display which is of 1920x1080 pixels. Here p is determined as pixel. If we count pixels in horizontally basis it will be 1080 pixels  and on vertical basis it will be 1920 pixels as shown in figure. So below are the various types of screen resolution which you have heard nowadays.

NOTE: Screen resolution are generally written in horizontal and vertical form i.e. 1920x1080 pixel but in the smartphone screen it is reversed as shown in the figure.

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• How to calculate no of pixels in the screen

Types of screen resolution:            

SR NO	PIXELS	RESOLUTION NAME
1	640x480	SD
2	1280x720	HD
3	1920x1080	FHD
4	2560x1440	2K or QHD
5	3840x2160	4K or UHD
6	7680x4320	8K

Abbreviation:

• SD      :  Standard Definition
• HD     : High Definition
• UHD  : Ultra High Definition
• FHD  :  Full High Definition
• QHD  : Quad High Definition
• K        :  Thousand Times

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