That's too bad! I was convinced they just used other pigment in the pixels, meaning, instead of black or white for the monochrome display, they used blue/white, red/white, and yellowor green/white pigments.
I haven't read up on it though, so my assumption may have been wrong.
I never thought it would have used an over-layer.
My issue is what kind of screen are they using?
An 3 color (RGB) based, or a 4 color based (RGB & Black)?
From the manufacturers website:
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The 9.68" PVI EPD screen with a display resolution of 1600 (H) * 1200 (W) is exceptionally crisp, clear, and fast
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If the screen is using a 4 color based (1600x1200 pixels), Blackvoid could be right in that, in order for text to be black, it needs to use the dark side of both R/G and B pixels. Even though the resolution may not exactly be 1600x1200, there could be some pixellation-rendering happening, which means that on angled lines (not exactly horizontal or vertical) and on rounded edges of a black line/curve or letters, there might be some red/blue/green pixels visible sticking out of the black contour, much like when you take a magnifying glass and look at most modern monitors, LCD's and TV's, the finer rendering.
According to the video I saw, the engineer said it was a very detailed screen, which would not have been the case if it had a standard 800x600 screen.
In other words, softwarematically it is possible to use Blue, Green (or Yellow), and Red pixels to add detail/resolution to jagged edges (in the video card industry is what they call this Anti-Aliasing). It gives the appearance of a more detailed text at the cost of some minor color deviation. If you can live with the tiny color specs on the edges of a black text it'll be a good solution
It might be possible that PDF's will be pretty readable on the jetbook. It would be the 9" device with the highest pixel density I've
The Hanlin A9 is yet another device I want to add to the arsenal of large paper readers, however it only has a 400Mhz processor, which could be painfully slow in rendering PDF's.
It would be slower than a 200Mhz processor rendering on a regular 6" e-ink reader!