Gah, what a list! Thanks for the huge chunk of work, Bob.
I agree with the idea that marketing this is difficult. The problem is that you really
can't get the idea of why e-ink is such a deal without actually
seeing it. I've seen one of the iLiad screens, and ... well it really can't be captured. (though I do think that the
prices have also been a significant barrier to HDTV adoption
)
The best thing for these e-ink devices would be to get them
out there so people can lay eyes on them.
Yeah, there are several products out, but the ones that have been released so far (Librié, iLiad and HanLin V8) just haen't gotten much penetration yet -- almost none in the U.S. There needs to be some kind of big PR stunt or something to get a lot of eyes on the screens, so that lots of folks can really
understand it.
Reproduced images just can't capture the difference. How does someone really grasp that a display is better if they can only see pictures of the
better display
on the
worse one?
Okay, I think this topic is too frustrating for me today, I'm going to go to some other topic for a bit.
