Comments on: Bridgestone speeds up e-paper display, prepares to ship units and also release e-reader dev kit

By: Dana Hartsock

Dana Hartsock — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:30:27 +0000

Each increment of improvement is important. Still, not a lot to brag about. From my personal experience, I don’t mind the refresh time… but the refresh flash annoys the heck out of me. I cannot grow accustomed to it and thus still prefer an LCD screen.

By: Jon Martin

Jon Martin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:49:41 +0000

For a large screen display, I can live with the .8 sec.
To put this into perspective, in my youth I was ranked in the top ten speedreaders with > 90% comprehension. As I am older, I am more interested in making my library physically smaller (The last time I moved it took a moving van just for the books).

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:34:51 +0000

Yep, it WAS. As I recall, it was in use only with signs, not e-book readers. Even .8 secs won’t be fast enough for many people.

Thanks,
David

By: jmurphy

jmurphy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:17:11 +0000

10X faster? Surely 10% faster.
If the previous iterations really took 8 seconds per page refresh, it would have been considered unusable, no?