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Competition. Eink seems to have stagnated.

by swsieber 8y ago

ATsch 8y ago
My understanding is that E-Ink holds all of the patents and is preventing any further competition or innovation.
- swsieber 8y ago
  That's my understanding too - if someone can create a screen that competes on energy use, then they occupy the same market and will hopefully force E-Ink to innovate/bring down prices.
bayindirh 8y ago
Worse, it's like they are developing something but not releasing it intentionally. Even the fast repaint algorithms are proprietary and not licensed to everyone. My Kobo Glo HD is advertising 50% faster page repaint with the new software. Amazon Kindle is using another algorithm, which is way different. Worse, the algorithms (called waveforms) are just pieces of software which are CPU architecture specific. They even don't port these algorithms between CPU architectures.
- solarkraft 8y ago
  Time for an open source implementation?
  - bayindirh 8y ago
    All of the stuff is possibly patented. I'm not sure how you can create an open source implementation of something patented and protected so well. It's like the present situation of the exFAT.
chx 8y ago
Dasung seems to be pushing the envelope -- they claim (and have video as proof) their upcoming Not-eReader has a much better refresh rate than your usual eReader. I am really excited about that device -- not because of the refresh but because it's a full Android tablet and a HDMI monitor. I will use it as a secondary screen for the One Mix Yoga 2S. How handy the first Core CPU, fast (aka non-eMMC) storage 7" laptop to have a HDMI output... I always have an eReader with me because I like to read on transit, so whenever oncall hits (oncall incidents are months apart, so it's not too bad being on call) I can just pull out the tiny laptop, plug the monitor in and I have pretty decent screen real estate for a bit of emergency debugging.

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Competition. Eink seems to have stagnated.

by swsieber 8y ago

Competition. Eink seems to have stagnated.

ATsch 8y ago
My understanding is that E-Ink holds all of the patents and is preventing any further competition or innovation.
- swsieber 8y ago
  That's my understanding too - if someone can create a screen that competes on energy use, then they occupy the same market and will hopefully force E-Ink to innovate/bring down prices.
bayindirh 8y ago
Worse, it's like they are developing something but not releasing it intentionally. Even the fast repaint algorithms are proprietary and not licensed to everyone. My Kobo Glo HD is advertising 50% faster page repaint with the new software. Amazon Kindle is using another algorithm, which is way different. Worse, the algorithms (called waveforms) are just pieces of software which are CPU architecture specific. They even don't port these algorithms between CPU architectures.
- solarkraft 8y ago
  Time for an open source implementation?
  - bayindirh 8y ago
    All of the stuff is possibly patented. I'm not sure how you can create an open source implementation of something patented and protected so well. It's like the present situation of the exFAT.
chx 8y ago
Dasung seems to be pushing the envelope -- they claim (and have video as proof) their upcoming Not-eReader has a much better refresh rate than your usual eReader. I am really excited about that device -- not because of the refresh but because it's a full Android tablet and a HDMI monitor. I will use it as a secondary screen for the One Mix Yoga 2S. How handy the first Core CPU, fast (aka non-eMMC) storage 7" laptop to have a HDMI output... I always have an eReader with me because I like to read on transit, so whenever oncall hits (oncall incidents are months apart, so it's not too bad being on call) I can just pull out the tiny laptop, plug the monitor in and I have pretty decent screen real estate for a bit of emergency debugging.