Left is BOE, right is presumably Samsung
Samsung panel photo taken from here:
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.
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.
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.
My inner demons trying to get me to RMA my dead pixel BOE deck while posts like this are making me think I should just get over it and replace the display later if it breaks or gets burn in down the line.
It really does look incredible, and I have gotten super picky about display uniformity since the plague of uneven LCD TVs have been killing my home movie enjoyment. Found that Samsung with their QLED line has the least grey uniformity issues on their TVs these days and if I ended up with a steam deck that had uneven brightness or colors that was unable to be RMA’d I’d be way more bothered than with a couple dead pixels. Though… That being a choice needing to be made is upsetting itself.
/Rant
E: ignore me I’m just enjoying this deck too much and having paranoia about RMA luck.
i have a dead blue and dead red pixel. The blue is hardly noticable and can only really see it in testing with 100% blue and its just a sliver.
Red is extremely noticable and even if I didn’t look for dead pixels its right in middle and incredibly obvious, glows green, and looks like a pin hole in tons of scenes