Quote:
Originally Posted by badbob001
C'mon e-ink, you've been sitting on the same displays for years. How about getting Epson's 385ppi (3104 x 4128) version to market?
|
Probably because the yield on such devices is incredibly low. Wouldn't be surprised if the one in the picture were the only sample they'd managed to get without a defect.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Timoleon
Two things I wonder about with Mirasol:
1) Low yield rates for larger displays. The display in the video is tiny!
2) Washed out colors. Even Obama looks sickly in the sample picture.
|
The gamut of a device using reflective colour will
always be far lower than one using transmissive technology - anyone working with print knows the important of proofing because even a high-quality offset print will never be as rich and deep as a wide-gamut LCD or CRT. A lot of this is because a reflective display is dependent on the quality of the light-source used to view it and much of the rest is down to the limitations on contrast. It would be reasonable to aim for a gamut that's similar to 4-colour newsprint, and the 2nd picture on slashgear looks like they've got pretty close.
Since this is about ebooks, my responses are:
More dpi - woohoo!
Fast refresh so no page-turn flash - very nice
colour and video - well that's OK I guess.