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.
Anyone know if the 1TB uses BOE? I got a 512 with a Samsung panel, and the greys are grainy. I would like to return it and get a BOE panel.
Only the LE has the BOE panel. The 1TB standard OLED will have a Samsung panel
Got it, thanks for letting me know. I suppose I should just be happy and stick with what I have. It’s a little grainy on greys but it’s not the end of the world and isn’t really noticeable in games so far.
No problem! If it’s not too bad I would keep it. The one I received is pretty bad so you could potentially do worse exchanging it. If you want to test it in a game you can download a demo of inside, that game uses the problematic grey right at the start menu.
Dude, it’s not even noticeable. Stop listening to the garbage in this subreddit. It’s all in your head now that ONE user made this comparison.
It’s noticeable even on phones with smaller screens and higher resolutions. This also didn’t appear yesterday, it’s an old problem with Samsung displays.