BBC:
More than 7,000 people still watch TV in black and white more than half a century after colour broadcasts began.
London has the most TV licences for black and white sets at 1,768, followed by 431 in the West Midlands and 390 in Greater Manchester.
A total of 7,161 UK households have failed to start watching in colour despite transmissions starting in 1967.
BBC2 was the first channel to regularly broadcast in colour from July that year with the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
The number of black and white licences has almost halved in the past five years and is down from 212,000 in 2000.
Aha! Those must be the last Manichaeans.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @09:04AM (1 child)
The Dasung not e-Reader [the-ebook-reader.com] is advertising video playback and there demo seems convincing. They have launched at least two other products on indiegogo, so they have track record of shipping, and also of being extremely expensive.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 09 2018, @09:36AM
It's interesting, and definitely on the way to becoming useful and hitting the points I mentioned. The name is pretty clever.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/not-ereader-first-e-ink-mobile-phone-monitor#/ [indiegogo.com]
They don't mention a frame rate. It looks like 12-15 Hz. Still, you can see a clear benefit for pinch-to-zoom and PDFs.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/dont-buy-e-reader-upcoming-technologies-kill-kindle/ [makeuseof.com]
^ This page mentions CLEARink. Claims 33 Hz, 4096 colors. So far, their demos don't look great:
https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2018/05/26/clearink-shows-off-disappointing-color-screens-at-display-week/ [the-ebook-reader.com]
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