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Originally Posted by Hrafn
certainly appears to be treating CI as a "product"
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As you know, there's no product.
"Onyx, reading is clearly not the future... Why have you not hexachrome in your screens?" Sorry, I am bad at absurd, I can never beat natural samples.
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Originally Posted by Hrafn
Clearink uses both Electrophoretic technology (similar to eInk), and a TFT (same as LCD). It therefore cannot be assumed that this combination can achieve the same resolutions as simple TFT/LCD
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Yes, we are speculating... What certainly cannot be stated, is that their product would be "100dpi" or anything - It would be utterly false. There is no product!
The showcase demo cannot be representative - it is there to prove the technology, not represent possible product specifications. They remain on paper until production.
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Originally Posted by Hrafn
How many years, and how many tens of millions of dollars does it take to get a technology from 106ppi to 300ppi
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I think probably very little time and very little unplanned costs... I do not see why their technology should be limited to that amount of ppi. The showcase demo does not count.
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Originally Posted by Hrafn
hard to track whether, and how fast, it is improving its specs
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We do not really have the specs... I am not informed of anything to be improved. They are in trial-manufacturing, but we do not get to get the results. I think this phase is of preparation of the planned product, I have not recorded what it is meant to be. Specifications of the first products will probably strongly vary accordingly (watch vs tablet vs label)...
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Originally Posted by Hrafn
If even a technology backed by such heavyweights
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It's not the same technology. That's electrowetting.
Do not forget the point in time. Maybe good electrowetting will be trivial in 15 years. It is not now.
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Originally Posted by Hrafn
that would likely require higher resolution
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Higher than what? Current widespread targets are more than sufficient.