I tried searching and came to the conclusion this does not exist. I would like a tablet with the following features:
I don't plan on using it for anything besides basic web browsing and pdf reading, so it should be cheap. However, price is no object if it has those features. There was one other soft criteria but it sounded like an ad so I removed it... See if you can guess.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 10 2018, @04:14PM (1 child)
It's not like there was ever anything stopping a company from adding an HDMI port to their e-reader.
The "SNOW Field" they mention might improve refresh rate slightly, and the quad core + RAM could help with loading detailed PDFs (less lag). But the refresh rate is still going to be very low.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper#Disadvantages [wikipedia.org]
Here's a recent e-ink "monitor" [digitaltrends.com].
The low refresh rate is a property of most e-ink technologies. High refresh rate e-ink screens haven't made it out of the lab, to my knowledge, although they have been hyping them up for years [e-ink-info.com].
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday May 10 2018, @04:33PM
I recall seeing an early Kindle software-modded to play video fast enough to maintain the illusion of motion. I suppose it's possible it was actually a hardware mod posing as a software mod, but it didn't have that hoax vibe to it (and a hardware mod would have been worth boasting about in it's own right)
Of course that might "only" have been 20-30 fps, but that'd be plenty for most uses.