[grawlinson]

Realistically, it’ll be when the patents expire.

[eli]

My understanding is it's much more about demand than patents.

LED panels got cheap because we built factories that pump out a lot of them.

[lrem]

I just glanced, they still want about 500 bucks for the 13" screen and half of that for the board to drive it. While I have no clue what making the screen at a low scale might cost, the board cannot possibly be five times more expensive than a Raspberry Pi, can it?

[GaggiX]

Which patents need to expire to have cheaper e-ink displays?

[fortran77]

They’ll just keep repeating thus trope whenever an e-ink project comes up. (They don’t think that LCD screens have patents too?)