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Originally Posted by HMishkoff
If OLED technology is already capable of displaying full-color full-motion video (which I assume it is, if Sony is using it for a TV screen), then why isn't OLED being used in e-books?
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I think that the requirements of TV/Video and eBook readers are quite different. An OLED screen is not unlike an LCD screen with backlight, in that it emits light. What eink has shown is that a reflective screen is much easier on the eyes, and is thus more suitable for long reading sessions, and it uses less power, so battery life is better.
OLED will probably be great for PDAs, phones, even tablet PCs and laptops, but for an ereader, fast colour eink is probably unbeatable, and slow monochrome eink is probably better than any light emitting technology.