Color displays with 100,000 dpi?

HansTWN · 08-13-2012, 11:39 PM

Perhaps there is hope for those of us who are hoping for better color screens?

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/13/s...gy-100000-dpi/

At the moment it does look like we will just get the usual incremental improvements only. Price is king, innovation takes a back seat.

rkomar · 08-14-2012, 12:26 AM

If my 6" Sony had a 100000 dpi display, it would contain just over 166 x 10^9 pixels. My desktop has 8x10^9 bytes of RAM; about 20 times less than that if it was grayscale. I'm thinking such a device would be really expensive and have a very slow refresh time. We're just not ready for those kinds of resolutions. But figuring out what kind of resolutions we are ready for is interesting. So, what dpi is reasonable considering current video/memory bandwidth/battery technology?

kennyc · 08-14-2012, 06:24 AM

My K2 resolution is just fine for reading.

mbovenka · 08-14-2012, 07:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kennyc

My K2 resolution is just fine for reading.

My DX could do with a bit more pixels, though. I'm using the second smallest font size, not because the smallest is too small to read (with good lighting I can read it just fine), but because the characters look a bit ratty. You can see that it starts running out of pixels at that point.

An antialiasing artefact, maybe, but I think bringing the PPI up to 6" standards (something like 1600x1200 instead of the current 1200x825) would help. I think that as soon as you reach 300-odd PPI, anything more is just gilding the lily as far as reading is concerned.

E-ink isn't there yet, at a max of 213 PPI (the 1024x768 6" screens used in the iRiver Story HD & Onyx Boox i62 HD).

Still, I'd take better contrast over more pixels, even at my DX's 150 PPI.

joblack · 08-14-2012, 05:16 PM

Retina display resolution with eink would be sufficient.

mbovenka · 08-15-2012, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by joblack

Retina display resolution with eink would be sufficient.

Yep. The iPhone 4S is 326 PPI, the iPad 3 264. I could live with an 9.7" E-Ink screen with the resolution of the iPad

08-13-2012, 11:39 PM	#1
HansTWN Wizard Posts: 4,538 Karma: 264065402 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Taiwan Device: HP Touchpad, Sony Duo 13, Lumia 920, Kobo Aura HD	Color displays with 100,000 dpi? Perhaps there is hope for those of us who are hoping for better color screens? http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/13/s...gy-100000-dpi/ At the moment it does look like we will just get the usual incremental improvements only. Price is king, innovation takes a back seat.

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08-14-2012, 12:26 AM	#2
rkomar Wizard Posts: 3,054 Karma: 18821071 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada Device: PRS-505, PB 902, PRS-T1, PB 623, PB 840, PB 633	If my 6" Sony had a 100000 dpi display, it would contain just over 166 x 10^9 pixels. My desktop has 8x10^9 bytes of RAM; about 20 times less than that if it was grayscale. I'm thinking such a device would be really expensive and have a very slow refresh time. We're just not ready for those kinds of resolutions. But figuring out what kind of resolutions we are ready for is interesting. So, what dpi is reasonable considering current video/memory bandwidth/battery technology?

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kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,897 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	My K2 resolution is just fine for reading.

08-14-2012, 05:16 PM	#5
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