I’ve been waiting for while now to pull the trigger on a steam deck, holding off has actually paid off as I’m now probably going to go for the OLED model if I can.

I just wanted to check if any users in here are aware if the Deck uses temporal dithering?

I’ve had headache and eye strain issues with a number of devices over the last 5 or so years and am fairly certain it’s down to temporal dithering. In most cases I’ve had to return the devices as they’ve been too uncomfortable for me to use constantly.

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    1 year ago

    If you mean that slight interlacing-like effect some IPS panels have, I haven’t noticed that on my Deck vs several of the cheaper Anbernic or Powkiddy handhelds I’ve used that do this if you look at it just right.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the reply!

      What you’ve described sounds like temporal dithering. I’ve seen this description of temporal dithering that I think is accurate: ‘Temporal dithering is a technique graphics cards use to generate intermediate colors, by rapidly alternating a pixel between two adjacent color values’