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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
I think this community should be cheering at the fact that color eInk panels are now a real, viable option, instead of endlessly criticizing its downsides.
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The problem is that Kaleido is an inherently flawed technology. If you put a filter on top of the screen, the screen gets darker. It's physically impossible to overcome this limitation, because Kaleido uses a flawed approach to begin with. Yes, having book covers in colour is nice, but you spend 1% of your time looking at covers and 99% of your time looking at text, so sacrificing contrast and clarity for cover art is a pretty bad tradeoff
if you're the kind of person who cares about contrast and clarity. Some people don't care, and I do not begrudge their enjoyment of colour cover art. I also would never buy a Kaleido device, as I need high contrast to avoid eye strain when I read.
I suspect there would be much less negativity if Gallery 3 were on the rise, instead of Kaleido. ACEP uses a better approach that involves white, cyan, magenta, and yellow cells to form colour, much as a printer does. This avoids all the problems Kaleido brings to the table, but it has one major downside, and that's an abysmally slow refresh speed. If E-Ink were spending money trying to solve that problem, I think you'd see a lot more positivity surrounding colour devices, because ACEP can offer colour without compromising the quality of BW content the way Kaleido does. Unfortunately, Kaleido is a cheap and easy approach, so it's popular right now, and that's a bad thing, because it gives E-Ink a reason not to work on proper colour e-paper technology.
