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)
    • usrtrv@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      Really depends on the content you consume. A lot of indie games and old games could benefit from 1080p. Especially with small text. And for more power hungry games you can always choose 720p

      • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        10 days ago

        Oh yeah. Small text is a fair point, and one that I hadn’t considered.

        I’m just trying to get a decent framerate for my 3D platformers and horror games and the Deck isn’t exactly impressing me at 800p 😭

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 days ago

    I was about to say “look interesting, but I’m going to wait for reviews”, but it seems that I need to do that anyway:

    […] for the initial launch, CE compliance will not be pursued and DeckSight will not be available in EU countries that conform to CE

    meh

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      10 days ago

      Also, why do these replacement screens always insist on increasing the resolution?

      The low res is one of the main reasons the Deck holds up as well as it does.

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        10 days ago

        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)

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          10 days 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.

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPM
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        10 days ago

        I believe it has to do with availability of pre-existing screens. I don’t think a startup can afford original deck exclusive OLED panels, these were probably mass produced for another device and are just being refitted for the Deck.

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    10 days ago

    I would definitely go for that, if it wasn’t a whole world of pain to tear down the Deck to do a screen change.

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      10 days ago

      I went ahead and backed it. I am slowly amassing everything I need for a complete shell swap (and other bits and bobs to mod my deck - last things needed are a bigger SSD and a SSD enclosure to clone the drive/use the original as external storage). If this gets funded, I’ll just wait until I get it in May and just not have to worry about detaching the stock screen and reattaching it to the new shell. If this doesn’t get funded I’ll just order a replacement screen from ifixit.

  • skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    The steam deck really can’t do 1080p, depends on what games of course but at 720 is where it functions best

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPM
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      10 days ago

      You can run games at 720p and upscale to 1080p. I’m assuming that’s how people will want to run any of the more demanding games with this mod.

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      8 days ago

      That’s stupid. It’s not a console where settings are locked down. Sure, you probably can’t run a new AAA high fidelity game at 1080p, nor could you run it at native at max settings. There are tons of games out there, new and old, that it can easily run at 1080p, especially if you tweek settings. You can always choose to render at a lower resolution than native too if you want.

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      9 days ago

      The built in screen is 800, not 720.

      It can do other resolutions natively if you connect an appropriate display.