Were there any other screens w/ a similarly high
(non-illuminated) contrast that had a backlight
that worked "normally" (i.e. light shines through
the clear pixels)? Or is the mode of the light
related to the high-contrast nature of the screen?
(My guess is that the two characteristics are
unrelated, and each would be available independantly)
--
-Richard M. Hartman
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186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fedor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 3:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Palm V backlight
>
>
> >Nope, I believe that it is a second, separate "enhancement",
> unrelated to
> >the clarity of the unlit display. Basically somebody
> thought it would look
> >cool to have the foreground illuminated & didn't consider
> the zero-contrast
> >situation at the crosspoint where dark-on-light crosses
> light-on-dark.
>
> I would have thought you'd have noticed by now, that Palm rarely does
> things just because they look cool :-)
>
> The different illumination (i.e. glowing "black" pixels) is a
> property of
> the newer screens. It was our choice whether to invert the
> screen display
> or not (as is obvious by the twiddle-dot-dot-8 shortcut), and our
> assessment that the considerably improved screen (during
> normal lighting
> conditions and in the dark) was worth the tradeoff of
> decreased contrast in
> a small range of light conditions. It certainly wasn't a
> case of us not
> noticing the effect - there was plenty of internal discussion
> on the topic.
>
> -David Fedor
> Palm Developer Support
>
>
>
