Thread: E-Ink tablet with full motion video and color?
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Old 06-24-2011, 02:55 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Charybdis View Post
E-Ink is good for the eyes, and the battery life is great.

If E-Ink could drastically improve the refresh rate, that would be fantastic.

Would you use your ebook reader for browsing the web, watching videos and writing documents? Of course you would. But you cannot, since the refresh rate sucks.
E Ink is made for reading: reading is a slow activity, it is what saves your battery life, not the technology itself. You read a page, you turn it: one charge spent. Were refresh rate good enough for video, it'd mean E Ink would do exactly the same as LCD: 30 refreshes per second. Your battery will run down as fast.

One can't please both greeks and trojans. One prefers E Ink to display static content, the other prefers LCD for fast-paced interactive stuff. Best of both worlds.
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