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There is a need gap for 'Affordable E-Ink large external displays'[1]. Dasung, Onyx have been market leaders in this category and they are expensive. There are

There is a need gap for 'Affordable E-Ink large external displays'[1]. Dasung, Onyx have been market leaders in this category and they are expensive. There are E-ink tablets from several other manufacturers as mentioned in other comments, but they rarely are external displays. Then there are reliability issues with cheap DIY E-Ink displays, they don't last long and especially when displaying low refresh rate data like Weather, todo list; there will be ghosting issues quite soon. I'm not exactly sure on whether manufacturing large E-ink external displays is just an unit-economics problem which will get resolved with improvement in technology or there is some underlying Intellectual Property issues from the likes of Amazon,Dasung,Onyx etc. [1]https://needgap.com/problems/43-affordable-e-ink-large-external-displays-eink-displays https://needgap.com/problems/43-affordable-e-ink-large-exter...

ianai 7y ago
From previous discussions, I remember it being a company sitting on the tech.
- Abishek_Muthian 7y ago
  You mean IP?
  - ianai 7y ago
    Yes, I think.
scottlocklin 7y ago
Not only are Onyx expensive; they're basically unusable. A rooted Kobo H2O with koreader in landscape mode is vastly better. Sony is apparently still selling the DPT-RP1, and it still doesn't connect to Linux or read DjVu. I guess at least it has an OSX client.
- j88439h84 7y ago
  Onyx boox note pro is expensive but fwiw I really like it.
  - Abishek_Muthian 7y ago
    Are you using it as an external display? Is it seamless as in traditional color monitor albeit the refresh rate?
    - dave7 7y ago
      Technology Connections (amazing Youtube channel btw!) has a few videos on using an Onyx Boox Max as a 2nd monitor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpRnRke6I0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpRnRke6I0 (Intro) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k (2nd channel longer look, mini review) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38dcArwCNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38dcArwCNc (6 months later, tips / tweaks / long term review)
    - te0006 7y ago
      The BOOX MAX 2 sadly doees not expose its full native resolution through the external monitor interface which is a real shame. Worse, none of the supported resolutions are integer fractions of the native resolution so scaling artifacts are unavoidable. It doesn`t even seem possible to sacrifice some border area and use a suitably-sized subwindow of the screen (e.g. FHD 1920x1080) without scaling. (If somebody knows better, please leave a comment) Onyx pretends there is no problem and cheerfully tells frustrated users to adjust their OS theme and font sizes, over and over again [1]. Shame on them for ruining what could have been a great and unique feature. because wouldn`t it be for this problem, the MAX2 would finally be a decent sunlight-ready external laptop screen, at least for text writing and some light coding. Well perhaps the problem is solved in the new MAX3 device. [1] http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/max2-hdmi-not-useable-wrong-display-resolution/58 http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/max2-hdmi-not-useable-wr...
      - Abishek_Muthian 7y ago

ianai 7y ago

From previous discussions, I remember it being a company sitting on the tech.

Abishek_Muthian 7y ago
You mean IP?
- ianai 7y ago
  Yes, I think.

scottlocklin 7y ago

Not only are Onyx expensive; they're basically unusable. A rooted Kobo H2O with koreader in landscape mode is vastly better. Sony is apparently still selling the DPT-RP1, and it still doesn't connect to Linux or read DjVu. I guess at least it has an OSX client.

j88439h84 7y ago
Onyx boox note pro is expensive but fwiw I really like it.
- Abishek_Muthian 7y ago
  Are you using it as an external display? Is it seamless as in traditional color monitor albeit the refresh rate?
  - dave7 7y ago
    Technology Connections (amazing Youtube channel btw!) has a few videos on using an Onyx Boox Max as a 2nd monitor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpRnRke6I0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpRnRke6I0 (Intro) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k (2nd channel longer look, mini review) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38dcArwCNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38dcArwCNc (6 months later, tips / tweaks / long term review)
  - te0006 7y ago
    The BOOX MAX 2 sadly doees not expose its full native resolution through the external monitor interface which is a real shame. Worse, none of the supported resolutions are integer fractions of the native resolution so scaling artifacts are unavoidable. It doesn`t even seem possible to sacrifice some border area and use a suitably-sized subwindow of the screen (e.g. FHD 1920x1080) without scaling. (If somebody knows better, please leave a comment) Onyx pretends there is no problem and cheerfully tells frustrated users to adjust their OS theme and font sizes, over and over again [1]. Shame on them for ruining what could have been a great and unique feature. because wouldn`t it be for this problem, the MAX2 would finally be a decent sunlight-ready external laptop screen, at least for text writing and some light coding. Well perhaps the problem is solved in the new MAX3 device. [1] http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/max2-hdmi-not-useable-wrong-display-resolution/58 http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/max2-hdmi-not-useable-wr...
    - Abishek_Muthian 7y ago