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I would much rather see a comeback of those Transflective LCD displays that Pixel Qi made almost 10 years ago. Here is a demo of the Pixel Qi10 display : https

I would much rather see a comeback of those Transflective LCD displays that Pixel Qi made almost 10 years ago. Here is a demo of the Pixel Qi10 display : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi6DbFyZde8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi6DbFyZde8 They had a dual mode so you could have the look/feel of a normal backlight LCD panel but when you wanted to go outside you could toggle to transflective mode. This means you would have normal refresh rates, color, multimedia, and an actual useful display when outdoors. Not sure why they ever went bust or what happened to the IP for these displays.

dredmorbius 4y ago
With frontlighting, e-ink is similarly useful indoors or out. Alternatively, you could have an LED booklight or similar to illuminate the screen. Refresh rates on e-ink are more than sufficient for text, and suffice for getting a general sense of video, though I wouldn't call that a high-level experience. Scrolling and similar are a bit rough, though the general solution is to avoid doing that, and instead navigate through pagination --- a full page (or portion) at a time.
- DoingIsLearning 4y ago
  > e-ink are more than sufficient for text, and suffice for getting a general sense of video Hard disagree but I understand this is personal and that perceived experience will vary across the board.
  - dredmorbius 4y ago
    I'm curious how you find e-ink insufficient / unsuited to text specifically.
    - DoingIsLearning 4y ago
      You left out the rest of the sentence :) ... E-ink is not the medium for getting a sense of a video, also at least for wrinting tasks more than reading, smooth scrolling is a much needed feature to not get disoriented. I agree that e-ink is great for _reading_ text which is why it is used in e-readers.
      - dredmorbius 4y ago
        And you'd not indicated what you were disagreeing with. I'll say again that on the device I have, I can quite reasonably get a sense of a video. Video of BOOX playing video: https://yewtu.be.com/watch?v=XRDJv_-wWBI https://yewtu.be.com/watch?v=XRDJv_-wWBI (Videoception!) Yes, it's B&W, yes, the framerate is low (about 4--8 fps AFAICT), and yes, there's some ghosting. But it's clear what the content is. Not appreciably worth from an old B&W television in the day --- better resolution for lower framerate, perhaps, on e-ink. If I'm writing text, it's almost always within vim or a similar text editor, and my navigation is either paging forward or back through the document (full-screen repaints), or using search. Again, that is well-suited to e-ink.

dredmorbius 4y ago

With frontlighting, e-ink is similarly useful indoors or out. Alternatively, you could have an LED booklight or similar to illuminate the screen. Refresh rates on e-ink are more than sufficient for text, and suffice for getting a general sense of video, though I wouldn't call that a high-level experience. Scrolling and similar are a bit rough, though the general solution is to avoid doing that, and instead navigate through pagination --- a full page (or portion) at a time.

DoingIsLearning 4y ago
> e-ink are more than sufficient for text, and suffice for getting a general sense of video Hard disagree but I understand this is personal and that perceived experience will vary across the board.
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  I'm curious how you find e-ink insufficient / unsuited to text specifically.
  - DoingIsLearning 4y ago
    You left out the rest of the sentence :) ... E-ink is not the medium for getting a sense of a video, also at least for wrinting tasks more than reading, smooth scrolling is a much needed feature to not get disoriented. I agree that e-ink is great for _reading_ text which is why it is used in e-readers.
    - dredmorbius 4y ago
      And you'd not indicated what you were disagreeing with. I'll say again that on the device I have, I can quite reasonably get a sense of a video. Video of BOOX playing video: https://yewtu.be.com/watch?v=XRDJv_-wWBI https://yewtu.be.com/watch?v=XRDJv_-wWBI (Videoception!) Yes, it's B&W, yes, the framerate is low (about 4--8 fps AFAICT), and yes, there's some ghosting. But it's clear what the content is. Not appreciably worth from an old B&W television in the day --- better resolution for lower framerate, perhaps, on e-ink. If I'm writing text, it's almost always within vim or a similar text editor, and my navigation is either paging forward or back through the document (full-screen repaints), or using search. Again, that is well-suited to e-ink.