Thread: Bridgestone announces flexible touchscreen color e-reader
View Single Post
Old 10-29-2009, 07:05 AM   #37
charleski
Wizard
charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.charleski ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 1,196
Karma: 1281258
Join Date: Sep 2009
Device: PRS-505
Quote:
Originally Posted by dmaul1114 View Post
I never carried paper e-books for reading before.
Don't get me started on those darn new-fangled paper e-books!! Metal and plastic was good enough for me and by jiminy they're good enough for my kids as well!


But seriously, the one thing I'd like to know here is resolution. Colour on a reflective display requires the use of four cells for each pixel (typically RGB and white) meaning that the resolution is half that of the base matrix. Thus a 166dpi screen which is 'good enough' becomes 83dpi, which definitely isn't sufficient quality for rendering high quality text. Increasing the size of the display just multiplies the manufacturing and quality control problems involved.

I'd love to be proved wrong, but I suspect this will prove to be a 70-80 dpi device more suitable for web browsing than reading large amounts of text.
charleski is offline   Reply With Quote