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At first glance at the menus, I honestly can’t see much of a difference in black levels between the anti-glare and glossy OLED like people were saying - and that’s coming from someone who uses multiple LG Cx OLED displays for gaming, photography, etc. and am fully aware of what OLED colors look like.
Thinking about making a short simple video on my thoughts. Let me know if there’s anything specific someone wants to see.
Could you check the white letters on the SteamOS menus? I can really see some haziness on those on the etched glass. Do you notice too?
Just checked. Looking at mine for a while, I can’t see a difference between the displays, or any “haze” on the text - even on max brightness and with glare.
I can see some on my 1tb, I am waiting on a 512 to be able to compare properly. But again, this could be just the SD relatively low resolution
Interesting… Could it possibly be a manufacturing issue with the one you got? If you see that the 512 is better, it may still be worth ordering another 1TB to see if it’s truly the anti-glare doing it, as much trouble as that would be - I think the anti-glare is really nice to risk passing up!
I just checked mine again, looking pretty hard for any haze, and the text is pretty much as sharp as it could be. Here’s a pic.
So looking at Dave2D’s video, which I think made myself and many others consider the glossy vs. matte comparison, and then looking at these Decks next to each other (currently in a very bright room) using the same game cover comparison, they look almost exactly the same in terms of OLED blacks and colors, except the anti-glare deck having (surprise!) drastically reduced glare.
I’ll be testing in a dark room and testing games later, but right now the anti-glare seems like a win to me. It’s especially good at blocking reflections of yourself while in a bright room - though I think most people can easily block out that reflection once they’re engaged in a game.
You’ll see the biggest difference in the OLED when a good range of dark or near black colors are on screen. The vibrance and range should really stand out then versus the grayish-blacks of the backlit LCD.
