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That ghosting was one of the complaints I heard about the Libre.
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07-14-2006, 11:18 AM | #18 |
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I wonder if they could change the "flash to black" for a "flash to white", it would look less obvious. I wonder also if the flashing counts as a page turn energywise.
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07-14-2006, 11:33 AM | #19 |
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Hey guys ! instead of wayting on every company to see what they come up with, why don't we come up with a collective list of prerequisites and post it to them telling what the thing should be like ?
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07-14-2006, 11:38 AM | #20 | |
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Apparently the Half is faster, uses lest power and doesn't flash to black, but it has some ghosting. The Full is the black flasher, its slower, and does use more power, but has no ghosting issues. I think flashing to white would be less obtrusive too. I'm guessing that since they all do the black, that there must be some reason for it rather than white. I'm hoping that the reason isn't that it just never occured to anyone to try the other way. @yvanleterrible: I think we've got a couple of threads along those lines, actually. Now I know I saw them around here somewhere .... Last edited by NatCh; 07-14-2006 at 11:40 AM. |
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Um, didn't he say launch would be September, and then correct himself to October? Looks like August won't happen then.
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september earliest, i even heard december somwhere.
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Sony got the reader to the shows as last december, seems logical that it'd come out a year later.
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On the flashing:
The flashing is something you will have to live with for all E-Ink screens. They have to invert the old image (which means you are going from mostly white to mostly black). This is done to ensure all of the pigment chips are properly aligned for the new image. Otherwise "ghosting" happens, where some pixels refused to change. E-Ink shaved a second off of this compared to previous generation displays. Its visually annoying, very slow, and one of the big complaints about their devices. |
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The flashing is something you will have to live with for all E-Ink screens. They have to invert the old image (which means you are going from mostly white to mostly black). This is done to ensure all of the pigment chips are properly aligned for the new image.
Otherwise "ghosting" happens, where some pixels refused to change. E-Ink shaved a second off of this compared to previous generation displays. Its visually annoying, very slow, and one of the big complaints about their devices. |
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The pigment chips are all isolated within pixel compartments (bubbles) underneath the display glass. They won't leak out. E-Ink keeps age info close to the vest. Someone in their tech support forum asked that very question and didn't really get an answer. But since the libres are still working great, I don't think its an issue. |
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Seriously cool Avatar diabloNL...you and tribble should do a contests...^^
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