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Decksight, an OLED screen replacement for LCD decks, is now in crowdfunding (www.crowdsupply.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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DeckSight is a 1080P AMOLED display panel that drops into an LCD model Valve Steam Deck with no major modifications. DeckSight surpasses the stock LCD in almost every specification, making your games look sharper, more colorful, and with perfect black levels.

$130-140 for the screen

Display Technology: AMOLED
Size: 7” diagonal, 16:9 aspect (slightly shorter and wider than stock)
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (up from 1200 x 800)
Color Depth: 10-bit, 1.07 billion colors (up from 8-bit, 16.7 million colors)
Brightness: 800 nits
Surface Options: Matte: Anti-glare and anti-fingerprint etched glass (similar to highest end stock LCD) Gloss: Anti-fingerprint coating (similar to 64 and 256 GB LCD models)
Refresh Rate: 60 Hz (currently), may be improved in before release or with BIOS patch (likely 80-90 Hz)
Contrast Ratio: > 1,000,000:1
Compatibility: Valve Steam Deck (LCD models, 64 GB/256 GB/512 GB)

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's easier to source a screen with a particular size that has standard resolution.

The steamdeck has a super awkward resolution that doesn't fit into any standard aspect ratio. Which creates problems with some games.

If you want to play games on a lower resolution for performance reasons, you can always just to that. Games don't need to run on the native resolution.

Playing a lower resolution on a screen that has a higher one will generally also make the image look nicer, as the DPI is higher. (just be careful and don't scale to some weird fractional scales)

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My main laptop is literally 16:10, same res as a deck, pretty sure most Macbooks and productivity monitors are 16:10 too, my gf even snagged a 30" 16:10 monitor. Who tf even bothers with 16:9 anymore lmao it's the worst of all worlds.