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Originally Posted by droopy
So happy that there is now an color eReader in the market. This means that a color Kobo and a color Kindle are not far behind!
FWIW, I bought my very first ereader about a year ago -- a Kobo Forma.
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I doubt it, as it dims the monochrome, makes the 300 DPI a little fuzzed at 600 dpi horizontally and only pastel colours because each sub colour dot is half monochrome and sharing the same cell as the visible uncoloured part and the colour resolution apart from being only 4096 including greys, is 100 dpi horizontally vs 300 dpi vertically. The orientation of the filter means colour text will look better in landscape mode. It's for comics.
The vast bulk of the users of eink (who are a minority of readers) use eink only for novels. This would be inferior for novels. Most people use OLED/LCD on phones and tablets. A 10" LCD tablet will be cheaper than this and better for colour comics.
My Lenovo 10" tablet was €120 in a local shop (€175 on Amazon) and the 256 GByte micro SD card was £34 including postage from the UK.
My Kobo Libra cost more, but though better than the 9.7" Kindle DXG, its much poorer than the Lenovo tablet for PDFs.
It's rare any comic or graphic novel would take more than 1/2 as long as the shortest novel barely longer than novella and many novels might take x10 longer to read, so fatigue of the LCD or OLED isn't an issue.
It's a niche product. The screen is a good compromise between a Triton (too dark and losing 1/3rd of horizontal resolution) and a 300 dpi monochrome eink. It's not really the same concept of reduced resolution chroma as composite TV (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) or JPEG encoding. There is no exact electronic analogue. Also the subsampling chroma (Reduced horizontal bandwidth on analogue TV, or X - Y resolution on digital) doesn't much affect saturation or range of colours. The colour range is limited by the 16 shades (14 greys, black and white) of the underlying cell. The colour saturation is limited by the filter, which needs to be a bit less dense and narrow than LCD so that reduces saturation. Then the saturation is halved again because each sub pixel of colour is 50% monochrome at the same grey value.