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One of my primary "consumer electronics" dreams for the future is that e-ink displays become cheap and commonplace. Something about screens causes them to stea
by mysecretaccount 4y ago
One of my primary "consumer electronics" dreams for the future is that e-ink displays become cheap and commonplace.
Something about screens causes them to steal away your attention. "Ambient" screens for menus in bars/restaurants are convenient but are awful decor. This is why I will never have a utility display in my house for e.g. displaying news, weather.
I do not even really care if the tech improves - just give us larger, cheaper e-ink displays with the same DPI/contrast ratio and let them replace ambient screens.
- shultays 4y agoThey indeed feel magical after getting used to non-ink displays. When I got my first e-ink reader and opened the box I saw that beautiful black and white artwork on screen. My first assumption was it was a plastic film with the artwork on it to protect the screen and I was supposed to remove it But nope, the art was actually being displayed on the screen. Since the display consumes no power even while it is "on", they were shipping with that art on the display My brain was just not able to comprehend a display can show a picture like that without emitting any lights
- Gigachad 4y agoYou can get TVs that look like paintings. I'm not talking about just having a painting like frame, but I wasn't actually sure if I was looking at a print or a TV. It's mostly to do with the matte screen and low brightness I guess. Supposedly you sacrifice color accuracy for this effect though.
- scottmcdot 4y agoCan you please share what TV you saw?
- Gigachad 4y agoNo idea, it was on a wall in a store. I think it might have been the Samsung frame tv.
- scottmcdot 4y agoThank you.