![]() ![]() If you wanted a “high resolution” display a popular upgrade was the Hercules Graphics Card (HGC) and compatible display brought you up to a whopping 720x348 monochrome. My original IBM PC clone had a color graphics card and was typically run in 320x200 pixel mode if you wanted to take advantage of having a whopping 4 colors. Whether it’s laced with marketing speak or doesn’t satisfy scientific scrutiny doesn’t really matter at this point because it’s such a massive improvement over what some of us started with and even the display technologies of the 90s and early 00s. Retina rocks. There is no turning back. ![]() Steve Jobs and Apple significantly raised our expectations with Retina for what we should consider to be the standard for comfortable and natural human interaction with computers and displays of every size. Thank you! Very informative and especially liked seeing all of the marketing terms explained in useful detail.Ī lot of current computing device users probably don’t appreciate just how far display technology has advanced in the past 40 or so years. "XDR" - Extreme Dynamic Range a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio."True Tone" - Dynamic adjustment of the display's brightness and temperature to match the surrounding light."Super Retina XDR" - An OLED Retina display with "Extreme Dynamic Range" (1,000,000:1 contrast ratio)."Super Retina" - Retina displays that use OLED technology to distinguish them from IPS LCD ones."Retina HD" - How Apple refers to the Retina displays used in the iPhone 6, 7, 8, and SE (2020 & 2022) lines."Retina 6K" - 6016 x 3384 resolution at a 32-inch size."Retina 5K" - 5120 x 2880 resolution at a 27-inch size."ProMotion" - A dynamically switching refresh rate, ranging between 10 and 120 Hz."Liquid Retina XDR" - An IPS LED Retina display with "Extreme Dynamic Range" (1,000,000:1 contrast ratio), achieved using a mini-LED backlighting system.Apple has used this term for Retina IPS LCDs since the launch of iPhone XR. "Liquid Retina" - Retina displays that use IPS LCD technology to distinguish them from OLED ones. ![]()
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