[Hrafn]

Originally Posted by mdp

...that does not mean that the technology is bound to that resolution...

AGAIN, it is probably just as well that I didn't state that.

DuckieTigger reported <<106 dpi on the color display prototype>>

And as it this appears to be about the ONLY hard data we have on this technology's capabilities, it is not unreasonable to base analysis on this, rather than untethered speculation on what the technology might one day be capable of.

not even for the batches of this spring (hoped for)

And the basis for this "hope" is?

The prototype does not count to define such limits...

Where the prototype is all we have, it cannot help but be the basis for any analysis of a technology's capabilities. anything else is pure speculation. Yes, improvement is possible (but ***NOT*** certain), but how much improvement, how quickly, and at what cost is beyond our knowing.

In fact the only basis we have for even speculating on such improvements is the speed at which prior technologies achieved them -- hence my eInk discussion -- which you appear to have ignored.

...you build a prototype according to budget, not to demonstrate a "state of the art". The prototype is reasonably cheap.

I would not call the end result of 5 years and millions of dollars worth of research "cheap". Also, having spent all this time and all that money on the technology, one does not skimp on the prototype. Prototypes are generally the most expensive single devices a company makes.

Also, a prototype IS, by definition, the "state of the art". It is the very best implementation of the technology that they have been able to turn from theory into reality.

The specification for the colour ranges is available - while that of the resolution I could not find -, yet the prototype was built to show 8 colours!

If 8 to 4096 color improvement is so easy, then why (in the ten months since they showed the original prototype last year) haven't they come out with a new prototype demonstrating this improvement?

They are in trial-manifacturing right now, the prototype happens much earlier...

Yes, but you need to prototype any new improvement before you can 'trial-manufacture' it. So, unless there is a new prototype with improved specs, then they will be trial-manufacturing based on the original prototype.

> Until we have specs, we have little more than vaporware and speculation.
Right, including the achievable resolutions: the prototype is not enough.

Yes, but lacking any factual basis, such speculation is worth about as much as this speculation: next year we will see a new technology, called HrafnInk, that will have 1000dpi, 16M colours, 60fps and negative energy usage (as it will also act as a solar panel).