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Old 11-04-2010, 12:52 PM   #28
Latinandgreek
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Originally Posted by frabjous View Post
Because e-Ink is a very different technology from LCD (or CRT), and having anything that "scrolls around" would not be fast enough and energy efficient enough to be worth it. There's a reason that you refresh the entire screen at a time and don't just scroll a line at a time with these devices: they use almost all their energy when changing the display. If you were constantly changing it, not only would it require a very different display configuration, it would use far more energy.
Can't the new Sony devices scroll around?
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