Thread: End of 167 ppi (800x600) screens?
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Old 07-18-2020, 12:01 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by John F View Post
IMO, my my older devices look "washed out" compared to my newer Glo HD. I just looked at my Kobo Touch and Sony 505. Compared to my Glo HD the background is greyer and the text isn't as black. To me, this looks washed out, now that I am used to the Glo HD. Even holding the Touch directly under a light (something I'm not going to do during normal reading), it still looks washed out, compared to my Glo HD.

If you prefer, I'll change "washed out" to poor contrast.
No I understood what you meant. You drew an incorrect conclusion based on your very limited personal experience. I've owned way too many ereaders (like many here) and feel very confident in saying that older ereaders are not washed out in general. I can even take out my own Kobo Touch or K3 or K4 and snap a pic if you want showing one of those old geezers completely outperform most of my modern Kindles and Kobos with much blacker font. If modern ereaders didn't have frontlights there would really be no competition on the contrast front.
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