Thread: Have ereader development peaked?
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Old 06-13-2011, 07:25 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by elcreative View Post
But if you get backlighting then it's hardly e-ink any more... e-ink is a reflective medium unlike LCD which is transmissive... one of the most attractive points for many people is just that e-ink is reflective, it doesn't shine a light in your eyes directly...
But theoretically, why couldn't a display be reflective when the light is off, and transmissive when the light is on?

And Pidgeon: Your Sony can look up foreign words now! Just change to the Spanish to English dictionary.

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