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by Toadtoad 1449 days ago
Demo of the music video "Bad Apple" being played on this monitor (or at least an iteration of it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XduK7wn9SE4
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I wonder what the display's lifetime is with this kind of usage? I see someone asked in the YT comments but it is unanswered.

I can't find any official data (as usual with eink) but I have heard that an eink pixel's lifetime is around 10 million pixel transitions. Not sure where that number comes from or how accurate it is and how it varies from one display to the next. But if true, you'd get only a couple days with this kind of usage.

Anyone know any more on this?

I would assume at the very least the people at Modos would run into that problem really soon if the pixels start dying after 10 million refreshes.