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Old 02-18-2015, 10:46 AM   #65
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Also I really think that a colour device would require fundamentally more changes than we're seeing in the f/w.
On the H2O the display framebuffer already uses colors [two bytes per pixel, RGB565]. You can take colored screenshots and if there was a way to make it use another display it would display colors as well.

I think this is not so much to support future color devices but for simplicity reasons... the books have colored covers, may contain colored images, etc. and you have to translate that color to the displays' capability somehow, and it's easier to do that in a central location (such as the display driver) rather than reimplementing it in each part of the software that may have to handle colored images (book reader, library viewer, browser, ...).
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