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Originally Posted by eschwartz
As Rizla mentioned, E-Ink has been demonstrated to display videos at a reasonable speed, which is why the part of my post you didn't quote  said: |
Indeed. There is an assumed and widespread misconception not based on reality or personal experience that E-ink can't animate or be used to browse etc. I do it all the time.
I am personally convinced that if a large screen e-ink device that could read and annotate pdfs and be used as a monitor was brought to the market, it would prove profitable. All we need is a DX with Android on it, and keyboard / PC integration built-in. It seems to me that this is a place where the market is failing. It seems to me that the big players are going after the lion-share market segment and are unwilling to take chances in the more marginal (but still potentially profitable) new e-ink areas. Sure, they'd make less with a large, multi-purpose open device, but they'd still make money. That's business, I know, but it's slowing innovation.