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Xenophon · 12-16-2007, 05:46 PM

The issue that matters most to me (above Color, above screen size, above roll-up capability) is resolution. Not resolution as in "more pixels on a bigger screen," but rather much higher DPI. I'd like 300 DPI minimum. 600 or 1200 would be better. Is there any prospect of (say) a 6" diagonal 600DPI display? Anywhere on the horizon at all?

This is really a key issue for competing with paper. Ordinary paperbacks are printed between 400 and 600DPI. Quality glossy magazines and textbooks sometimes run up to 3000DPI. When can I have a high-quality display like that?

Xenophon

Ummm... I realize that such a screen would be impossibly expensive at the moment. I guess I really mean to ask: when can we have something like that at prices not TOO much worse than the current batch of displays?

12-16-2007, 05:46 PM	#12
Xenophon curmudgeon Posts: 1,487 Karma: 5748190 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA USA Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500	The issue that matters most to me (above Color, above screen size, above roll-up capability) is resolution. Not resolution as in "more pixels on a bigger screen," but rather much higher DPI. I'd like 300 DPI minimum. 600 or 1200 would be better. Is there any prospect of (say) a 6" diagonal 600DPI display? Anywhere on the horizon at all? This is really a key issue for competing with paper. Ordinary paperbacks are printed between 400 and 600DPI. Quality glossy magazines and textbooks sometimes run up to 3000DPI. When can I have a high-quality display like that? Xenophon Ummm... I realize that such a screen would be impossibly expensive at the moment. I guess I really mean to ask: when can we have something like that at prices not TOO much worse than the current batch of displays?