Sharp has a 260,000 color display called the super mobile LCD, also known as the High Contrast Reflection (HCR) display. This device has a simple structure. It uses conventional TN liquid crystals yet resolves problems such as parallax and limited colors. To develop this display Sharp worked with Tatsuo Uchida a professor at Tohoku University. Together they devised a microreflective structure, this is an arrangement of liquid crystals in which an indium-tin-oxide electrode for each pixel is coated with a reflection layer.

This structure makes it possible to form a reflection layer immediately under the liquid-crystal layer between the glass (fig 30) panels. As a result external diffusing reflector and second polarizer are no longer necessary. The micro-electrode structure however is applicable only to Sharps TFT’s. Most of sharps LCD’s use a proprietary structure called Super HA to realize a high aperture ratio of more than 80 percent in both low resolution and XGA panels. This structure is a precondition to form the reflection layer on each electrode.

Toshiba uses low temperature polysilicon technology with their reflective LCDs. Low temperature polysilicon TFT technology can " replace the 11 drivers normally needed for a display of resolution SVGA while using 200 contact pins instead of 3,000 ". According to Toshiba low temperature polysilicon TFT is " easy to manufacture and has high reliability ". Toshiba uses CMY color filters with their design rather than RGB as " CMY filter has an advantage of being brighter when used in reflective displays ". With the CMY filter they have a " brightness of 40% and CR of 12 ". Under 750 lux which is similar to the lighting in a normal room the panel has a " brightness of 80 candelas per sq meter, almost comparable to a conventional notebook display ". At the Japan Electronics show ’97 Toshiba showed a 10 inch SVGA resolution display with CR of 14 and 260,000 color capability.

Matsushita demonstrated a reflective LCD that uses low-temperature polysilicon process for the TFTs in its active matrix circuitry. The 4 inch diagonal quarter VGA resolution device had an " aperture ratio of 94 percent and a CR of 15 ". The R-LCD has enough contrast for " 8 bits of gray scale compared to Sharps 6 bit (260,000) color display ".