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Originally Posted by Poppaea
Next time have a look at the spechs. The Sony screen is a Vizplex 220. I'd be interested what the Nook says it has.
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Yep, this is indeed the same as the new Nook Touch, but I HAVE 'LOOKED AT THE SPECHS' as you say, and you know what the fine eInk folks have done Poppaea?
Just as I have seen in some other markets, they have set such a CRAPPY MINIMUM SPECIFICATION, that they can pretty much ship ANYTHING and call it 'Pearl'.
The Vizplex Pearl specifications only guarantees a 10:1 contrast ratio, which is absolutely PISS-POOR.
Most of the screens may hit 20:1 or better, but if you only get 10:1 don't blame us.
This leaves it up to the manufacture to hold the line on quality, and reject batches of Vizplex if they feel they are not up to their standards.
From my admittedly limited experience, it doesn't look like Sony has been as vigilant as they should in this regard. I have seen old Nooks that supposedly didn't even have 'Pearl' screens that could easily match my Sony.
When you pay a premium price for a product like the Sony, you would expect exactly the opposite (i.e. that mass-market Kindles and Nooks would have lower quality Pearl screens) but, sadly, this is the exact opposite of my experience.
