Finally, The Battle of Britain

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Originally Posted by JimmyGiro

I personally knew of super LCD display technologies in prototype back in the mid 90s, based on ferroelectric liquid crystals, that moved ten times faster than the present 'nematic' type of today. The reasons you don't see them for sale is that they cost about three times more to make the displays, and the companies are still selling the old technology at profit, so there's no economic incentive from their point of view to sell better stuff.

Ok. Now tell me if you call that "progress" or not.

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Originally Posted by carguy_

Ok. Now tell me if you call that "progress" or not.

Of course. The technology is there for applications that need it whether now or in the future. The mass market isn't the only market but for mass production Good Enough tends to be the general rule even when Better is possible.