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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've seen images that look oksih (at best) on a standard Reader such as your 505. But now with Readers coming out with much higher resolution, these oksih images are now lousy and can be very hard to see properly (maps are a good example of being unreadable).
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Really? Isn't it just that you expect a better quality for a high-resolution screen, and what you get is in fact about the same as a low-resolution one?
There are two cases for low-resolution images:
Images shown at their native resolution: They can look OK in low-resolution devices, but then they'll be damn small in high-resolution devices, with unreadable text if there's any.
Images scaled to some specific size: I don't see why they should look different in high-res or low-res devices. There may be small differences due to the scaling algorithm and the factors being different. If it's optimized for low-res, such that the scaling is 1:1, the quality may be somewhat degraded in high-res (aliasing etc.). If a case like this is unreadable in a high-res device, being OK in a low-res one, there's something seriously broken in the scaling algorithm.
On the other hand, high-resolution images have their own problems: large memory usage, overflow in low-res screens at native resolution, worse degradation when being scaled down.