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Originally Posted by jocampo
eink, does not emit light, is the most natural way to read. Nothing is coming from the screen so what you see and read is thanks to the natural reflection of the ambient light against the screen. A few of the benefits:
No parallax
On eink black and white particles move and reside on same layer, so when reading, everything looks and really is on the top of the screen, giving a true reading or paper feeling.
On LCD, the white color is coming from back light while black is coming from the front, the liquid crystal layer in the middle; that creates a shadow which gets worse if you read at angle, decreasing the quality of the reading experience and the legibility of the letters and whole content.
Less Glare
Self explanatory. Because eink screens are treated to be matte like a printed page, there is low or no reflection, so what you see is what you are reading, not the content plus additional light reflection, very common on all LCD screens (more or less noticeable in certain devices, depending of the overall quality of the screen)
No aperture ratio loss
The pixels on LCD screens do not have a full aperture ratio. E Ink screens have a 100% aperture ratio.
So when two black pixels are close on a eink screen, they join to create a true solid black (or white, depending) improving the image quality.
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this has nothing to do on how the technology works and how the image projected back to the eye. It's about white to black . True white to true black.
yes you can post what makes eink advantgeous. I like eink. I love the way it's displayed, I love being able to read it outdoors. and I love the way it's not reflective. No argument here. But it's not true black and it's not true white.
I can have the Pearl eink screen side by side to an iPad, Nook color or Samsung Tab and the difference in looking at the color of the white background of the lCD screen to the black letterings, the LCD is sharper and has a much higher and a TRUE contrast ratio.
You can post all the tech on how eink works all you want but it doesn't change the fact that the kindle, nook, Sony etc uses 16 shades of Gray, not levels of black to white.