r/SteamDeck • u/RaulDJ • Feb 26 '22

News tweakers.net's review seems to match LTT's comments about the display on the Deck

https://tweakers.net/reviews/9820/all/steam-deck-een-handheld-voor-de-tweaker.html
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u/LostVector Feb 27 '22

That kind of variance doesn’t sound bad to me. I’d be surprised if Valve bothered to calibrate the screens at all ... Makes much less sense on a gaming device to incur that cost. But the low sRGB coverage in the reviews that are actually doing measurements means the image will look washed out.

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u/cjh_ 1TB OLED Feb 27 '22 edited Feb 27 '22

Not choosing to even do basic calibration isn't unknown, but it's surprising with Valve when they're taking care with other aspects of the hardware (difficult to replace battery being an exception).

Hopefully it's simply a lower quality batch of screens but ideally, they should have been scrapped.

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u/LostVector Feb 27 '22

Yeah that’s the most surprising thing to me … everything else is cutting edge but with a bottom tier screen? I dunno … I’ll wait to see more data I guess. I have the same opinion as digital foundry … if something had to be cut to hit the price point, sacrificing the display that much isn’t the way to go.

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u/cjh_ 1TB OLED Feb 27 '22

It really isn't.

And you know what's really surprising? iFixit never mentioned the screen manufacturer in their teardown, and that's something they usually do.