Left is BOE, right is presumably Samsung

Samsung panel photo taken from here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/185biuu/no_one_is_talking_about_the_subpixel_arrangement/

My LE Deck OLED has BOE screen which I confirmed through that firmware dump command. I don’t have any dead pixels or any issue with the screen, but I think this difference in su-pixel structure is VERY interesting.

There’s been some complaint about red/green fringes on text, but not everyone seems to see it equally well. I looked at mine, Even looking very closely to the point Im seeing individual pixels and the small gaps between the pixels, I just don’t see it.

https://preview.redd.it/kaphnbcgo53c1.png?width=1794&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a1b743e31de9466b9b3a5613e3f7f11f5486042

If we zoom in and look at the text, this is in desktop mode in Chrome, we can see there is in fact no sub-pixel anti-aliasing, the font is made up of whole pixels.

BTW I think BOE layout is better than Samsung because every pixel is symmetrical and the gaps are evenly distributed. Where as the Samsung has alternating left/right leaning blue pixels, which creates a big gap every two pixels, and this can lead to a slightly more grainy look.

https://preview.redd.it/hbycma4tq53c1.png?width=478&format=png&auto=webp&s=6c45fc75c6852eba2f129ec9a887a5db6b72e183

You can also see the slight blurring effect from the anti-glare screen I have on mine. The blur radius is smaller than these sub-pixels, it cannot reduce the sharpness of displayed images, but it can soften the appearance of individual pixels.

  • steamdeckieB
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    1 year ago

    Please, zoom it to the level of individual photons.