Valve's product designer shuts down the prospect of upgrading your OG LCD Steam Deck with a custom OLED screen (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Dadifer@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@lemmy.ml

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[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago

Yeah, speaking as an electronics engineer who's going through a new product release at work, swapping the screen to a different model, never mind a new display technology, means dealing with slightly different MIPI and TCP ribbon cable layouts. Unless you have a separate screen adapter PCB daughter board, that means redoing the track layout on the main board.

So yeah, it sucks a bit for the consumer but it's expected. I'd imagine Valve's engineers tried very hard to find an OLED screen that would work as a drop in replacement. At least they're not making promises they can't keep, which happens a lot: Companies often lie through omission on their spec sheets.

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

So all it would take is reordering the wires from the ribbon cable?

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

To me it sounds like it would take having a driver board that can run a different display (and is compatible with the rest of the Deck hardware). Some systems do this by having a ribbon cable from mainboard to the driver board then on to the display