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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
That is further promulgation of a meme.
There is no generic reason why an LCD display has to go "dark" outdoors (in fact none of mine do). Furthermore they can be made readable outdoors as they are where such readability is widely desired by users; for example, look at leisure marine electronic devices where active LCD colour displays are widely used even in bright sunlight.
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Hadn't known that. Checked on YouTube and found a video from 6 years ago showing a couple of screens that were sunlight readable and contrasting them in natural sunlight to a screen which wasn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s78KmJUyVeY
Kind of makes one wonder why this technology doesn't seem to have been used on very many portable devices. Is it overly expensive, or perhaps an energy hog?
I'm guessing that quite a number of people would pay a bit more for screens that were truly usable outdoors. Just think about how much easier it would be to catch Pokemon...