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Honestly I still think it's the wrong tech for this use case. I would much rather see a come back of monochrome transflective displays.

Give me an A3 size, monochrome, 4k resolution, transflective LCD, at 30fps, that I can scroll through text naturally and read with external ambient light. That to me would be the perfect 'reading' 2nd monitor.

See the old 'Pixel Qi' displays as an example of this tech.

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Transflective LCDs have piss poor contrast and generally they're only good in direct sunlight. Who would want to read on that indoors and why? See for example the comparison video your other replier posted: https://youtu.be/AXHzY1IgJWw?t=370 I also have watches with RLCD and Amoled, indoors even on a very sunny day RLCD sucks. And 4k for 20 inches display? What for? Do you plan to stick your face in the monitor?

> And 4k for 20 inches display? What for? Do you plan to stick your face in the monitor?

It's still less than 300 dpi but getting close enough to be comparable to most printed materials.

No need to go monochrome. Sunvision already has color RLCD monitors. https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/

There's also a color RLCD tablet being released soon by Eyemoo. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35900620

Both displays refresh at 60Hz, and have 1920x1080 and 1600x1200 resolution respectively.

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