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Originally Posted by Andanzas
It's a little bit weird that after 2 years and all these new models the screen of the 505 is still the best one...
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Well if you look back at the history of standard monitors, the monochrome monitors were the sharpest by far for a very long time.
If I had to guess about the way e-ink screens are going, it seems to me that the effort to add gray levels and increase refresh speed is being made at the sacrifice of quality. I notice with my Kindle 2 that there is all kinds of ghosting all the time. But hey, it changes pages superfast! heh. The PRS-505 only has 4 gray levels, and super slow page changes/refresh. Obviously just a guess but I have read the technical white papers on this technology and it seems to fit.
I think what we're going to see is progressive worsening of E-Ink quality until a suitable technological upgrade, or at least materials upgrade is made cheap enough to provide the same beautiful features without the slowness or lack of color variations. I'd put a guess of 3-4 years on that and am willing to bet that the technology is based on similar principals as DLP microchips.
Weeeeeee! Future speculation is fun!