CES 2011: Color E-ink display vs. Mirasol Display

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[stbays]

I think I prefer the color e-ink display.

[spectrummag]

@stbays Really? Why? To me the color seems super washed-out. It's more like a hint of color.

[bloodbp]

I don't know if its just the girl that's really small, but that e-ink reader looks huge

[Gegendieluege]

I'm surprised so few people seem to understand what E-INK is all about.

Here you can see a Mirasol display in sunlight ambient: search for "Qualcomm MEMS mirasol reflective light screen demonstration"

And here the E-Ink even in DIRECT sunlight: "Pixel Qi vs E Ink vs LCD in direct sunlight - Notion Ink Adam, Nook Color, Kindle 3"

[Ts6451]

@GotNextVideo : That is true, but then, if we are to compare the power drain of two devices in actual use, where the purpose is to test the difference in display technology, we would want to use equal tests.

It would not be very representative if the Mirasol device had to show video while an E-Ink device that can not show video only have to show pages in a book and then conclude that E-Ink is better since the Mirasol device have used all its power after a relatively short time

[GotNextVideo]

@Ts6451 At least when viewing static images. Obviously when watching videos and the like, that's going to go down, not only because of the screen, but because that's going to tax the processor and video hardware more too.

[GotNextVideo]

@outforsushi I don't know exactly how it compares to e-ink as far as specific numbers, but Mirasol is supposedly super low energy. Even if it's half of e-ink's that still puts it miles away from LCD or OLED tablets and makes it a pretty compelling crossover device.

[Ts6451]

@zybch : Apparently, the Mirasol display is an interferometric modulation display, it uses optical resonator cavities that can be switched electrically, it is a bistable display, and so only use power while updating the content and retain images without power. In that respect it is similar to E-ink or bistable LCDs.

The combination of no light emitting components, and only using power while updating probably means very little power is used by a Mirasol display module.

[aesteban]

damn mirasol looks good! But what's the real battery life it achieves, compared to grey e-ink readers, for example?

[prettylolitadoll]

@outforsushi it doesn't use much energy.

[Moonsabie]

i hate how bright and fake lcd ect are i am happy about this

[cadre38]

Misarol have bad colour reproduction imo