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Matilo · 12-25-2017, 06:14 AM

Bistable version:

It will be really interessting how the bistable screen looks like. ClearInk states that the reflection is 83 % which is double what e-ink can achieve. So the white and black hence the contrast will be much better. Compare a physical white page with a kindle paperwhite with frontlight off. It does not look like paper. So I expect that the ClearInk bistable version will look like paper even if the frontlight will be turned off. IMO the reading experience will be much better than on a kindle.

Video version:
As in the bistable version they can achieve a reflection of 83 %. So there is a lot of room to use a color filter which reduces reflection. With 4096 colors (the prototype showed just 8 different colors) the reflection will be reduced to around 40 - 45 %. Which is as good as the reflection seen on the kindle paperwhite but now with 4096 colors. In addition the shown prototype does not have a frontligth. With frontlight colors will look even stronger and better. Should they increase the ppi densitiy from 100 to between 200 - 300 this would be outstanding.

The ACeP from e-ink can show up to 32.000 but page turning will be too slow for using it browsing in the internet or even playing videos etc.. And I expect that ACeP will be very expensive compared to ClearInks technologie.

I bet all my money on ClearInk.

12-25-2017, 06:14 AM	#53
Matilo Zealot Posts: 112 Karma: 1248456 Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Germany Device: Likebook Mars, kindle Paperwhite 2nd generation, kindle fire hdx 8.9	Bistable version: It will be really interessting how the bistable screen looks like. ClearInk states that the reflection is 83 % which is double what e-ink can achieve. So the white and black hence the contrast will be much better. Compare a physical white page with a kindle paperwhite with frontlight off. It does not look like paper. So I expect that the ClearInk bistable version will look like paper even if the frontlight will be turned off. IMO the reading experience will be much better than on a kindle. Video version: As in the bistable version they can achieve a reflection of 83 %. So there is a lot of room to use a color filter which reduces reflection. With 4096 colors (the prototype showed just 8 different colors) the reflection will be reduced to around 40 - 45 %. Which is as good as the reflection seen on the kindle paperwhite but now with 4096 colors. In addition the shown prototype does not have a frontligth. With frontlight colors will look even stronger and better. Should they increase the ppi densitiy from 100 to between 200 - 300 this would be outstanding. The ACeP from e-ink can show up to 32.000 but page turning will be too slow for using it browsing in the internet or even playing videos etc.. And I expect that ACeP will be very expensive compared to ClearInks technologie. I bet all my money on ClearInk. Last edited by Matilo; 01-06-2018 at 03:57 PM.