alt Hacker NewsColor is a gimmick for e-ink now? I wonder if people thought the same thing when they brought color to television.
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izacus • today at 9:29 PM
It comes with a massive loss of contrast so it's a bit of a gimmick, yeah.
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Color is a gimmick for e-ink now? I wonder if people thought the same thing when they brought color to television.
It comes with a massive loss of contrast so it's a bit of a gimmick, yeah.
For pure reading of text it provides minimal benefit (color highlighting and cover art, mostly) while costing contrast ratio and dollars. Especially since some devices (e.g. Kobo Libra) are now offered only with a color display, I can see why someone would call it a gimmick. I personally view the reflectivity of eink as the entire point and thus have no interest in it.
That said, of course if you want to view color content on an EPD then it is quite necessary and not a gimmick at all.