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What is the customer need being solved, and why is this 900 Euro 13 inch display a better solution than either paper or TV?
I was moderately excited when I saw the photos, but wow those prices! 900 € for a 13 inch screen? For comparison, you can get a 55" Samsung Frame TV for cheaper than that. Digital photo frames are under $100. I like e-ink, but not that much.
Eink is just really expensive right now. I believe that it’s heavily patented and only one or two places produces the panels.
You could make one of these frames and save 400-500$
https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/13.3inch-...
^ Here is a 13inch high resolution epaper screen that I found.
Eink has been around for several years now but apparently they are unable to just make a big panel? That combined with their idiotic pricing scheme makes me think their management is just stupid
The main different compared to the physical bookshelf is that it is always updating (round-robin, moving, rotating, etc) thus it can display all your books in a limited e-paper physical gallery space (depending on the installed e-paper size and dimension) but should cover all your ebooks over time.
What is the customer need being solved, and why is this 900 Euro 13 inch display a better solution than either paper or TV?
Fresh art all the time Don't have to print and change the artwork manually No backlight - looks just like real art No cord, battery-powered, lasts a long time
If they get to say 220dpi, 12x8", at least 128 shades of grey and a really, really white "paper", that would be enough for this to be interesting. But they are not there yet. I love black and white but this is not much better than framing a page from a newspaper -- which has an appeal this does not.
This is neat, but it looks like something the HN crowd would build themselves over buying. I know my first impulse was "I could make this..."
Wouldn't be as pretty as this but it's much higher resolution at 227ppi.
Maybe that's the unique selling point of this; a nice presentable frame and photo matte.
I was moderately excited when I saw the photos, but wow those prices! 900 € for a 13 inch screen? For comparison, you can get a 55" Samsung Frame TV for cheaper than that. Digital photo frames are under $100. I like e-ink, but not that much.
The ArtFrame 6": - Has a 166 PPI 6 inch eInk screen - Can store 150 pictures (let's be generous and presume it has 1 GB of internal storage) - Costs €349
The Kobo Clara HD ereader: - Has a 300 PPI 6 inch eInk screen - Has 8 GB of internal storage - Costs €140
I was moderately excited when I saw the photos, but wow those prices! 900 € for a 13 inch screen? For comparison, you can get a 55" Samsung Frame TV for cheaper than that. Digital photo frames are under $100. I like e-ink, but not that much.
Exactly...as an example: The ArtFrame 6": - Has a 166 PPI 6 inch eInk screen - Can store 150 pictures (let's be generous and presume it has 1 GB of internal storage) - Costs €349 The Kobo Clara HD ereader: - Has a 300 PPI 6 inch eInk screen - Has 8 GB of internal storage - Costs €140
6" is also really small for an art display IMO. Even 13.3" is kinda small. If they would be offering a much larger 40" art display I might consider it for €900, depending on picture quality. But at this price 150/166 ppi display is just bonkers.
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That's interesting the three color thing didn't know that was a thing
Check this out: https://thepihut.com/products/inky-impression-4-7-colour-epa...