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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.
There are 2 possible scenarios:
- Playing in lit environment - antiglare better.
- Playing in darkness or almost darkness - both are the same.
Like I previously said. Dave2D doesn’t preform any rigorous tests and measurements. I would even say that he doesn’t do any reviews at all. He just shares his subjective impressions.
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.
And I thought I’d wasted my money having a series x, swtich, gaming pc, quest 3 and deck on the way. There’s no need for multiple decks
I have no idea why you would assume the OP is going to keep their LCD. I bought the OLED but will sell my LCD version once I get it. I want to boot them both up to compare too lol.
I have the Oled LE and the Switch Oled and it looks like the colors pop more on the switch. What’s your take?
Currently in a bright room with lots of natural lighting (going to test different lighting scenarios), and in the menus I don’t see much of a difference so far.
In terms of the effect of colors popping, I think that might be affected by other things e.g. the menu backgrounds on the Steam interface are just darker and so there’s more contrast between the background and game covers. I would personally say, just in the menus, the colors of the game covers appear pretty much the same between the Steam Deck OLED and Switch OLED. They seem to “pop” more on the deck, but mostly just because of the darker backgrounds on the Steam interface.
I’m going to compare Okami and Stardew Valley once they’re done installing, will reply here what I think about the colors with those.
Put the test results in another comment. Switch OLED seems slightly more saturated in Stardew Valley, but checking now I did have Vivid mode on. Overall still very, very similar - and I’ve now found my LE Anti-Glare OLED and Glossy OLED look completely indistinguishable.
Do you have vivid mode on on Switch? Switch OLED has a vivid mode that significantly over saturates the colours. If that’s on on your switch it will look like that.
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.
