![]() On the other hand, the Frame is extremely believable as a framed art print, to the extent that it fooled me the first time I saw one. It was a nice enough effect in a well lit room, but turn the lights down in the slightest, and it's very obviously a television set, and just didn't feel at all arty. I was one of those guys who tried mounting an old flat panel to the wall to display art that I liked before realizing that it just wasn't believable. I recently experienced the Samsung Frame which - to be clear - is NOT an E-ink panel, doesn't have the power savings, etc., but it's larger, cheaper, and has a very believable art mode. That's a lot for what basically amounts to a one color display, and if we ignore all the other features of E-ink, you could replicate this for less cost with other tech. It should probably not be lost on us that the E-ink display he's using in the prototype costs $1500. In the end it is what it is - everybody says they'd use an E Ink display everyday, but almost nobody is prepared to spend the cash when they can use iPads, phones or huge LCD/OLED instead.Į Ink will have it's day in digital signage as they solve the colors as these screens will replace all paper advertising eventually, but untill the you'll see this screens on ebook readers / note takers, on conference rooms and on digital bus stops. ![]() We've sold a platform for any application and after a while we saw that it only makes sense to focus on specific niches (digital signage, transportation, bus stops) or go for finished product (see our ). E Ink is useful only as a niche solution for specific, mostly not consumer (exception being Kindle and Remarkable) products. ![]() We ( ) have been building E Ink solutions for past decade and we just stoped convincing people that they should use E Ink where they could use LCD or OLED. The E Ink technology has a lot of downsides compared to OLED and LCD, such as update speed, limited colors. You need high volumes to drop the price and you can't get high volumes with high price. ![]()
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