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Originally Posted by Lbooker
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Good details...I like they offer the contrast ratios as minimums rather than under the best possible lighting for the panel. That certainly makes the panels much more attractive despite only 4-bit color with palette of 4096 colors.
After looking at the video earlier, where, if ya didn't notice, they didn't show any page changes. Still given the sliding filter design to produce their colors I was expecting pretty slow page turns on anything with a fair amount of color. One thing to remember is most page turns are likely to be toward the quicker end of the range as most pages won't have more than about a 5%-10% color coverage, save for magazines where the turns would likely be much slower than most readers will be willing to live with, especially for the $400+ color devices will command at release.
I wonder if it's simply a matter of taking an existing reader, swapping out the controller card and plopping in the new color panel. Do we know where readers perform the color processing? Is it just a matter of sending the color data to the controller card which then does all the processing and cell management? If so, then I would also think there might not be too much overhead for the device makers in producing the color readers themselves. Even the controller card will be part of the panel package. I hope they were a bit forward thinking in the original design to allow for a simple swap of a couple components rather than needing a whole redesigned system board and BIOS.