If you want to sell a screen replacement, make it OLED and get rid of the enormous bezel. If you can't do that, don't bother. It ain't worth it.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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My understanding is OLED aftermarket screens aren't really possible, the cost of OLED screens is too high unless you're producing an insane amount of them. The market for handheld PCs isn't big enough for any company to place a large enough OLED order.
Only ways we'll get OLED screens on any handheld PCs is if they forecasted sales are extremely high (don't know the exact numbers, but probably 10+ million minimum expected sales), if they can be designed to use an OLED screen designed for a different device (similar to how the deck screen was originally a tablet screen), or if there's a significant change in the pricing of OLED screens. 3rd party non-OEM screens will probably never be OLED, at least for the foreseeable future.
I mean Valve could do it? Or you could use any of the 389473902 different OLED tablet screens already available.
Valve can't afford to do it unless the market grows and the steam deck 2 is projected to sell way more copies.
There also.arent that many tablets with OLED screens, and all of them are basically 12" screens. 8" tablets aren't popular enough for OLED screens.
Valve can't afford to do it unless the market grows
Several million is not enough?
At a significant markup over the current price, that's not easy to guarantee
My Aya Neo Air has an OLED
That's a 5.5" screen, I'm guessing it was a high production phone screen that had stock already available.
Unfortunately the 7-8" screen market seems to have very few OLED options.
Having just done a shell swap with the current shell layout there doesn't seem to be a lot of room to reduce the bezzle size without some serious Dremel work. Maybe you could get them down to switch OLED size but they don't bother me and probably helped keep the cost down.
Missed opportunity not to give it significantly better color reproduction IMO. Just the anti glare with an otherwise minor improvement doesn't seem worth the cost and hassle.
Tbf, it does have better color reproduction - but "significant" is probably subjective
I would pay for something similar to the DeckHD screen if it had the same color improvements, retained the 800p and didn’t need a custom BIOS flash (like the DeckHD needs). I already have the Anti Glare screen, so need something worth the effort of a full screen replacement. If I busted my current screen, then I would buy this versus the “regular” replacement via ifixit.
Are there any controller boards that can run a SteamDeck screen? Just wondering what you'd do with the unused part. Would be cool to turn it into a tiny portable screen.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Unlike DeckHD, the team at JSAUX decided to stick with the normal 800p Steam Deck resolution.
The only minor difference is that JSAUX claim their screen has 70% sRGB coverage versus 67% on the original.
Could be a good little upgrade mod for anyone with a 64GB or 256GB Steam Deck to get the anti-glare screen.
A difficult mod to do though, that requires taking the entire Steam Deck apart.
Not something beginners should think about, as a lot of small things can go wrong that could end up becoming a big expense.
Still, it's nice to continue to see more and more hardware mods appearing for the Steam Deck because of how open it is.
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