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Originally Posted by brecklundin
remember one thing, you don't want a monochrome/grayscale panel to get too "white" or contrasty. Think of the situation where trying to read on super white paper outside or under very powerful lighting. If you have any printer/copier or whatever paper with a whiteness rating over 94ish (I know this is not a standardized rating system, but fer a change just go with the idea rather than bicker about trivial semantics...  ) Print some text on that paper, take it out into the bright sunshine and try to read on it...it's at best worse than an LCD at full power...remember you are getting a thing in the sky called THE SUN reflected back into your eyes and there is not a lot of light lost in that reflection. So, there is a point, though it will be a while in coming I'm sure, but a there exists a point where a panel can reflect too much light and have too much contrast for many, but obviously not all, reading conditions.
Now those in more northern latitudes are not as aware of these sorts of things but others who are closer down the globe toward the equator know full well how bright the sun can make things. And for us, reading outside by the pool, at the beach or even in the park is not an uncommon event which DTB's are very well suited for...
I doubt this new crop of panels is even close to that problem point buuuut, one never knows. In fact the final panels used for this style color panels might end up being too contrasty for use as a plain B&W reading device. But color needs a LOT of white light and strong as well...
If the Sony Daily Edition is using this new tech panel I need to find a place and compare with my K2i to see the difference, if any, under the same conditions. |
It's very unlikely that EPDs will ever reach the level of white-state reflectance that would make them painful to view in bright light. What's more, even if they
could reach that level (or if they are usurped by EFD or another technology that claims to be able to do so)...by the time it happens, devices ought to be sufficiently advanced that background gray adjustment will be a trivial matter. Bright, bright white in lower light, toned-down gray for a sunny day. Hey, that rhymes.
