Hi there, I know this has been debated for a long time but just trying to understand if this level of backlight bleeding is normal. To add some context, this picture was taken in a dark room with the deck showing a completely black image. Thanks!
I try to avoid being in a completely dark room while staring at an LCD because of backlight bleeding. It’s a limit of the technology, so I just turn on a dim light in the other corner of the room and it’s far less noticeable.
Bias lighting is a common tactic to improve black levels.
Yeah that’s pretty typical for the LCD model. It’s honestly not too bad when you have content playing that fills the whole screen, and it always looks way worse in a very dark environment.
Mine is like this, but it doesn’t really bother me too much. I’m usually playing in a well lit room though.
A camera isn’t very flattering while it’s straining like heck to expose something. To the eye, it’s not that bad.
I definitely feel a little jealous of OLED whenever there’s a “black” loading screen, but once the game gets going I forget about it. I had the OG gameboy, I have had some outrageously bad screens in my time. This LCD can still do reasonably vivid color, has very low color shift when you tilt it, and I can’t make out the pixels. I have some better screens around, but the difference in the quality of my experience with any of my modern screens is pretty small.
My LCD deck fortunately doesn’t have any backlight bleed, but I’ve seen many photos of other’s Decks with similar backlight bleed to yours.
I’ve heard of people having success eliminating or reducing their backlight bleed two different ways. Basically part of the cause of the bleed is that parts of the deck aren’t properly aligned/pulled together. To fix this, you can try:
- Tightening screws on back of the deck (take care not to strip the screws or overtighten to the point you break the plastic)
- Holding both grips of the Deck and “twisting” them in separate directions. Obviously don’t twist it hard enough to break anything.
I don’t have any experience with these fixes, I’ve just heard people say it helped online.
Same for me. That’s a common problem for LCD screens. That is a part of the reason I got an OLED version.
It’s probably more IPS glow than backlight bleed, which is an inherent part of the technology (the colour cast is a dead giveaway). Older IPS displays with CCFL backlights had a white glow which was less distracting, but doesn’t really make sense to use these days as they have increased power requirements compared to LED backlights.
The OLED model won’t have the issue.
