Bookeen posted a YouTube video (below) on their blog today showing video playback on an E Ink Pearl display, the same type of screen the Kindle 3 and Sony Readers use. Back at CES, Freescale demoed their latest ereader processor hooked up to a Pearl panel running at 8 frames per second.
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New Freescale Processor Pushes E Ink Pearl Screens to 8fps (Video)
Freescale is showing off the power of their new processors at CES. One to look forward to is the new i.MX508 processor for E Ink ebook readers. This next generation processor is capable of getting the most out of E Ink’s new Pearl display technology. It allows for faster performance, lower production cost, and increases […]
E Ink’s Pearl Displays are Winning Awards
E Ink, the company that makes the screens for the majority of dedicated ebook readers, announced today that their new Pearl displays have won the Best Commercialization Award at the fourth annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards. This marks the second award this month. On December 1st E Ink announced that their Pearl display were selected […]
LG Demos New Color ePaper Displays (Videos)
LG decided to show off two new color epaper displays at the Flat Panel Display International show in Japan on Wednesday alongside E Ink’s new Triton color epaper display technology. The first LG color epaper prototype has a 9.7-inch display with a pixel resolutions of 800 x 600—seemingly low for the large screen size. The […]
Triton Color ePaper Technology Unveiled by E Ink
Yesterday it was announced that Hanvon, the leading ereader supplier in China, will be the first company to offer a color ebook reader that uses an E Ink display. Later in the day E Ink revealed the details of the color epaper by issuing a press release to announce the release of its next generation […]
Hanvon to Release the First Color E Ink eReader
Color E Ink is finally almost here. Hanvon, the largest ereader company in China with roughly 78% of the market share, is set to announce the first color E Ink ereader for release in China, which will be available in March of 2011. The Hanvon color ereader will be the first of its kind, and […]
SiPix vs E Ink – eReader Screen Technologies Compared
This SiPix vs E Ink review compares the Kindle 3 and Kobo WiFi’s E Ink screens with the new Pandigital Novel’s SiPix screen.
Amazon Adds LCD vs E Ink Section to Kindle Pages
I’ve been too busy lately to mention this, but a week or so ago, before the Nook Color was announced, I happened to notice that Amazon has added a new section to their Kindle product description pages comparing LCD displays with the E Ink Kindle screen.