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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
I was told only " standard components" have been used, but I am not sure if that refers to components commonly used in other E Ink devices.
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It will be a standard component, pretty much no matter what. There are an assortment of video controllers out there for mobile devices, and the question is which got used. Bookeen is too small to use anything other than "off the rack" hardware.
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I remember reading somewhere (don't quote me here) that while battery life drops, it is still superior due to the screen only requiring a partial refresh (as long as the video doesn't occupy the full screen).
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That makes sense. I'd expect battery life to be better than on a backlit LCD device, where a constant trickle is required to keep the screen refreshed. But I'd expect any significant use of the device for video playback to drop battery life. It will likely be better than a backlit device, but not as good as an eInk device used only to display static data.
The bigger question here is use cases. Why would you
want to display video on an eInk device? The usage I can see is for the enhanced ebooks lots of folks are brewing up, that will include audio and video. This demonstrates an eInk device can display them. But while lots of things like that are likely to appear in the pipeline, I don't expect many to be compelling. Done right, such a product needs to be designed as a multi-media production from the start, and the vast majority of books simply won't need that sort of treatment. I expect to see a lot of enhanced ebooks tank because producers were simply tacking stuff on to a book that really should have been just simple text.
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Dennis