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Originally Posted by boswd
but that same Joe Q. Public aka the masses will also know that these colors are very "dull" and will still be attracted to the shiny, nice and vibrant LCD screens.
It's a good step in the right direction but I don't think there is much of window of opprotunity here before eink becomes a "niche" market.
This seems awfully rushed before it's ready for prime time.
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I don't think the underlying technology will
ever be ready for prime time. Unless eInk can manage better than 12 bit 4096 color displays, this simply won't be adequate for most ebooks using color content.
eInk
is a niche market, and will remain so. It's just dandy for monochrome text with, perhaps, line art or grey scale illustrations, and sees productive use in a variety of dedicated reader devices where the fact that people find it easier to read and it has long battery life between recharges are the compelling features.
If you need anything like accurate color, or you need to view animations or video, eInk is not for you. Color eInk doesn't do a good enough job for most of the material you might need color to view, and the screen refresh is far too slow to handle any material that requires motion.
The big question is whether LCD screens supporting proper color will simply take over the market and leave eInk non-viable because not enough people will want the displays to make it worth the while to make them.
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Dennis