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Originally Posted by Hrafn

My impression is that one of the heaviest migrations from dead-tree to eReading is in genre (i.e. Romance, SF&F, etc) fiction. I would therefore suggest that "the way {I} use {my} device" is hardly atypical.

What proportion of eReader users [...]

My point in fact was exactly that to just follow the trend of the bulk market would be Plato's democracy. And in fact, both Onyx and Clearink are clearly reasoning in terms of "some markets are already filled in".

Originally Posted by Hrafn

I am questioning the unsubstantiated assumption that "video-capable and colors" are the Holy Grail of eReading

No, they are the immediately evldent lack of light-friendly displays.

Originally Posted by Hrafn

What is the market for color on an eReader? Comic reading?

Information rich content. It benefits from an extra dimension. (It was for example the point of failure of the Onyx tablet used as GPS based map browser.) Information conveyed through a flowing logic expressed in text paragraphs hardly benefits from colours, the rest does.

Originally Posted by Hrafn

If so, the colors on Clearink would have to be very vivid

I am actually more concerned about the quality of black and of white in displays made for sustained reading.

Originally Posted by Hrafn

> ...and the important matter is what /will/ be valid technologies having matured...
>This might be a valid assertion if

No, what I meant is that once the technology will be there, it will see adoption. Availability "creates" a market.

Originally Posted by Hrafn

>High framerates and the dimension of color (and battery efficiency) _are_ important for an always-ready display.
>You have not provided any evidence that this is sufficiently ubiquitously true in terms of how people use their eReaders for your emphatic "_are_" to be valid.

No, read again: <<always-ready display>>, not <<eReaders>>. (And nothing to do with ubiquity, as expressed earlier.)

Originally Posted by Hrafn

I would also point out many uses of tablets/phablets/smart-phones, involving such things as as high-quality video playback, wireless and cellular communications, gaming, etc tend to have a fairly heavy battery draw, limiting the ability of a battery-efficient display to contribute to a battery-efficient device under such usage patterns.

There are many scenarios in which the display has the highest impact on the battery drain. It is very important for a mobile device. For intensive use of other drainers in other scenarios, well, shall the user manage them intelligently, will he.
Which by the way brings me to the statement I often read "OLED consumes more then other technologies when mostly displaying whites". Who is the cleverboy that uses it to display mostly whites?
First you need the capability, then the "baculty" - the two sides of "ability"!

Originally Posted by Hrafn

Yes, but this makes a case for caution and market research, rather than simply jumping on the latest bandwagon.
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It remains ludicrously premature to say "To Onyx: Stop using e-Ink! Use ClearInk instead!"
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That assumes that they've learned sufficiently from past failures. Only time, and the availability of actual products for review, will determine if this assumption is valid.

If not following the first, the Onyx people would be neurally deficient; if the second, the ClearInk people would. Instead, I see achievements and CVs...