reMarkable Paper Pro I.5: Color Redux

[@zombiefromazombieworld4198]

Excellent video. Much more useful than the dozens of paid reviews from all those third grade "creators" out there. Thanks a lot.

[@VladimirKostek]

Fascinating Jeff, thanks for comparing to the Galy!

[@JonDisnard]

Whoa! This is actually very interesting to see the two gallery screens side by side. Other folks have noticed the blacks are more of a deep blue color on the paper pro. So if was surprising to see proper blues and blacks on the old device. I've heard that old device has a lot of flicker, compared to the new screen, something about a controller chip needing some improvement.

[@jeffreymoss]

I should point out that on the old device blacks did look blue if the Dark Enhancement was set to zero. But I set it to 15, which solved that problem without creating any additional issues (e.g. images that appeared too dark).

[@bluein2red423]

Another helpful video, thanks. Just a thought: if your camera supports it, it would be worth setting it to manual exposure and manual white balance, to ensure it doesn’t dynamically adjust.

[@jeffreymoss]

I appreciate that feedback!

[@yensteel]

This clears up a lot of confusion! There's a noticeable difference with contrast modes, and Kaleido 3 needs 50% brightness on the Boox to match (many of us raise the brightness like that at the cost of battery life). It looks like RM has a refined color reproduction at the cost of number of colors indeed! Wonder if other companies have renewed interest in the panel (or a generic version of it at least) and take another stab at it. BSR is gonna be a real pain to design for it.

[@jeffreymoss]

I've been thinking about that. It's going to be hard for some of the competitors to use Gallery 3. The reMarkable UI does a great job in hiding some of the tech's weaknesses. In particular I'm thinking of the refresh rate and scrolling. Boox would be hard pressed to leverage it effectively, in my mind. But products that are more about page turns and the like are more amenable to Gallery 3. So eReaders, for example, could do well with it.

[@anatolitrafimuk4987]

Really cool comparison. Looks like I do not need to buy RMPP for the comix reading. Need to wait Sharp 8 or some BOOX Gallery 3 devices.

[@DeepanshuThakuriamgsa2k14]

Good, detailed video! Good work.

[@rush48192]

Looks like mine will be here today for my 100 day testing

[@filiepgeeraert8301]

Thank you very much for doing the comparison between Galy and Remarkable Pro. I think remarkable have done a good job here. Maybe the lesser number of colours has to do with the colour balancing. The Galy was notable for its white background being peach, and at the time I saw images of other Gallery 3 devices on trade shows (I think it was Sharp) and that one also had the peach coloured white. Now I can imagine once you start tinkering with those components you might get some colours to display better, and others might simply disappear. The contrast filter shows the complexity of this technology. For me personally, I'm not sure if I should get into Gallery 3 when some simpler e-reader comes out using the technology or keep an eye on the evolution and wait for some other moment (Gallery 4, 5, ...?). Gallery 3 seems to be pretty usable in this incarnation, though.

[@chris...6972]

thx for the test now we know for the color

[@Ekzuzy]

Since they develop a software which renders/displays PDF files on the Paper Pro, they should have all the information about there the text is being displayed and where are images. This way they could apply higher contrast to only selected areas, where it is indeed need (they already can update screen selectively, so a similar method could be applied for increasing contrast only to selected parts of the screen). This way an option would not be needed and users would not see either clear, dark text and crappy images, or beautiful images but blurry text.

[@badbob001]

I've seen PDF viewers that have an option to force PDF text to be black so I don't understand why they went with the simplistic approach of changing the contrast of the whole screen. On that note, is there a mode to force a documents to display as black and white, which would be useful to make your colored markup stand out and perhaps improve performance.

[@Ekzuzy]

@@badbob001 We can only hope they are going to improve the software with future updates.

[@aussiericky8618]

How well does the automatic contrast setting guess the content and adapt to using or not the filter?

[@TheVorst]

Yes the performance of the automatic mode, would be nice to see. In case you have: only text, mix text/images, and only images on the screen. Because that is what most people will do.

[@jeffreymoss]

I'll play around with that, but automatic mode was basically kicking in to 'on' for the color palette and the page of text I showed. So it seemed to default there. But there must be some circumstance when it chooses 'off'.

[@zombiefromazombieworld4198]

Regarding the difference in color representation between the rmpp and the bigme screen do you think it can and will be improved further in software for the rmpp? The panels should be identical, should they not?

[@jeffreymoss]

In theory, future software updates should help. I can see them reducing the screen flashes, for example, or providing an ability to refresh the screen on demand so the user can control the flashes. But it's hard to say regarding color behavior. It's a tough tech to work with.

[@robintree3306]

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[@jeffreymoss]

Well played.

[@AlfredoMorenoM]

( made this comment in instagram and i share it ) love remarkable has changed part of mylife, but, come on, this version doesn't have the level i was expecting in comparison to another eink tablets, thats why i returned it, I'm still and happily using my rmk2 thanks for ur effort because is laudable. The reasons why i returned in 24 hours were the not "writing in a paper feeling, is more like my tablet, the refreshing effect is very annoying for pleople who is navigating in the searching bar or looking for tags every microsecond, organising etc, making it feel optically slower. the color is not that intense or vibrant (minor issue) the aesthetic of the tablet is poor, Iow cost, not that elegant but sustainable i guess so. (Another minor issue) the light is ok but it makes an x-ray to ur tablet u can see the frames transilluminated is a not elegant way. (Minor issue) I'm sad because i had to sell my boox onyx ultra c pro for it... pd i think and hope u re able to reinvent for the next version guys, greetings