Reply to post: Re: "back-lit color e-paper"?

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ThomH

Re: "back-lit color e-paper"?

Yes, like I said, Wikipedia's entry on electronic paper contrasts it with back-lit displays. Normal terminology considers any sort of LCD to be an entirely different thing from electronic paper. A functional difference being that electronic paper benefits from increased external light, back-lit LCDs suffer from it, outdoors daylight usually subtracting significantly from the perceived contrast and gamut of the latter.

So I guess they're just playing fast and loose with the terminology.

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