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This HDR obsession makes me want to abandon color entirely and switch to E-Ink.

The problem with e-ink is no so much the poor gamut as the low speed of switching the pixels.

Technology connections had a video showing a large e-ink playing video, and it was 3-5FPS, so unless your use case is "videos and games" e-ink is already plenty fast.

It's even faster if you let it manage its own pixels and only update parts of the screen that need to be redrawn. Can't play videos like that but scrolling a spreadsheet becomes much faster.

Wouldn't typing also just be horrendous on 3-5hz displays? I think the only thing that would be good on an e-ink display would be reading static text.

> scrolling a spreadsheet becomes much faster.

Have you actually tried? Do you have a video of this? Because as far as I know, and I actually work with electrophoretics, physics limits the speed of the ink. I hope you're not confusing something like A2 mode with actual display updates.

> The problem with e-ink is no so much the poor gamut

I don't understand what you mean by "poor gamut". Gamut of grayscale?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30038129

How do you have a problem with the gamut of a still-in-research technology that isn't even available as prototypes let alone commercially avialable? Are you confusing that with Kaleido?

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