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Originally Posted by pdurrant
For you the refresh has to be fast enough for streaming video or forget it.
Many other people might find a colour eInk a useful advance over greyscale eInk.
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"Many" -- compared to what? Enough to warrant inventing the technology, marketing and supporting it? That's really questionable.
Already eInk itself is way past it's hey day. Phones with large screens and tablets (from expensive to fairly cheap) have taken all of the oxygen out of that market.
One would assume color eInk would be more expensive than b&w eInk. And if you don't have "video quality" you are remove all of the movie, tv, youtube, web video use cases.
Now you are left with readers of static material who aren't satisfied with b&w --- AND --- who don't feel they can read comfortably on a tablet....AND...who are willing to pay more than b&w ink.
And "how many" answer needs to be "millions and millions" or else you are going to have to significantly increase the price due to the lack of economies of scale.
I remain skeptical such a market will ever exist even if the tech EVER actually arrives. And by arrives, I mean "photo quality color". Short of that, then there isn't ANY chance of a mass market product.