Comments on: Snazzy color-capable screen to elbow aside E Ink? Mary Lou Jepsen’s new multiuse screen to be unveiled in May http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:54:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dhamu http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/comment-page-1/#comment-1054553 Dhamu Sun, 10 May 2009 05:57:26 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/#comment-1054553 The math of this is astounding, if we take the numbers at face value. A ten-inch-diagonal screen is six by eight. HDTV is at least 1280x720, but that's 16:9. If we assume the 720 applies, in 4:3 that's 960x720. Three times that is 2880x2160 in epaper mode. That's 360 pixels per inch, more than double other readers' sharpness, if we trust what's being said. OLPC screens are 200 ppi, so that's quite an improvement. The math of this is astounding, if we take the numbers at face value. A ten-inch-diagonal screen is six by eight. HDTV is at least 1280×720, but that’s 16:9. If we assume the 720 applies, in 4:3 that’s 960×720. Three times that is 2880×2160 in epaper mode. That’s 360 pixels per inch, more than double other readers’ sharpness, if we trust what’s being said. OLPC screens are 200 ppi, so that’s quite an improvement.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/comment-page-1/#comment-1043370 David Rothman Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:23:16 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/#comment-1043370 Yep, Bill, I agree---especially since PixelQi tech could probably lower Amazon's costs. I'm just curious if Mary Lou will try to nudge 'em toward more openness. Thanks. David Yep, Bill, I agree—especially since PixelQi tech could probably lower Amazon’s costs. I’m just curious if Mary Lou will try to nudge ‘em toward more openness. Thanks. David

]]> By: Bill Janssen http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/comment-page-1/#comment-1043250 Bill Janssen Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:10:33 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/#comment-1043250 Hi, David. I'm sure Amazon doesn't care what the technology is, so long as it doesn't kill the battery life. They just want to make the Kindle great, and if the PixelQi screen is the way to do that, they will. Hi, David. I’m sure Amazon doesn’t care what the technology is, so long as it doesn’t kill the battery life. They just want to make the Kindle great, and if the PixelQi screen is the way to do that, they will.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/comment-page-1/#comment-1043047 David Rothman Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:18:13 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/#comment-1043047 Hey, LuYu, I doubt that Amazon is about to go out of business tomorrow. We at least can <em>try</em> for openness there. And Mary Lou'd tech could be a wedge. On another front, I continue to suggest that anti-trust-related officials give Amazon a <em>close</em> look. Same for the FTC in regard to DRM exposure. I totally agree with with your belief that consumer convenience, Amazon-style, can come at the expense of competition. But let's give Amazon its due. I'm not against its existence, just against its current <em>practices</em>. If Mary Lou can change them, so much the better. Thanks, David Hey, LuYu, I doubt that Amazon is about to go out of business tomorrow. We at least can try for openness there. And Mary Lou’d tech could be a wedge.

On another front, I continue to suggest that anti-trust-related officials give Amazon a close look. Same for the FTC in regard to DRM exposure. I totally agree with with your belief that consumer convenience, Amazon-style, can come at the expense of competition.

But let’s give Amazon its due. I’m not against its existence, just against its current practices. If Mary Lou can change them, so much the better.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: LuYu http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/comment-page-1/#comment-1043039 LuYu Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:59:57 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/24/snazzy-color-capable-screen-to-elbow-aside-e-ink-mary-lou-jepsens-new-multiuse-screen-to-come-out-next-month/#comment-1043039 <blockquote><i>Maybe a PixelQI-Amazon deal after all?</i> </blockquote> Please! Do not make me vomit! That is the most disgusting thing I have heard in years. It is like Luke Skywalker being contracted to work for the Empire as a hitman. As for PixelQi <b><i>replacing</i></b> the Kindle, I seriously hope so. However, I am not holding my breath. Amazon is a marketing behemoth, and the Kindle's other DRM system, the cellphone link to their store, uses convenience to enslave users and prevent competition.

Maybe a PixelQI-Amazon deal after all?

Please! Do not make me vomit! That is the most disgusting thing I have heard in years. It is like Luke Skywalker being contracted to work for the Empire as a hitman.

As for PixelQi replacing the Kindle, I seriously hope so. However, I am not holding my breath. Amazon is a marketing behemoth, and the Kindle’s other DRM system, the cellphone link to their store, uses convenience to enslave users and prevent competition.

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