I have a phone that has an OLED type display and has a high contrast ratio and HDR. I don’t wanna spend “flagship phone” amount of money on a tablet, so I was wondering if a cheap tablet would improve viewing experience because of the bigger screen or would it be worse since its LCD and low contrast ratio. By “videos” I mean mostly for Youtube, but sometimes TV Shows, and occasionally movies.

(And no I don’t want something like a TV, too big, too much hassle for casually watching videos)

(P.S. I notice a lot of reddit threads get very judgy and poor-shaming when people mention “movie” and “phone”/“tablet” in the same sentence… 👀)

Edit: sh.itjust.works is having issues, using @shitdoesntwork@sopuli.xyz to reply for now

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Potential oddball suggestion, but possibly worth considering:

    Get a Steam Deck, get some kind of kickstand accessory/dock for it.

    I have no clue what your exact price points or screen size/dpi, or viewing distance preferences are, but I absolutely spend way more time ‘using’ my Deck to just play videos while I am lounging in my bed… than I do using it for anything else, lol.

    Also, of course, a Steam Deck is a semi-portable gaming device, and also a psuedo-laptop… you can just plug in a mouse, keyboard, and/or a fairly cheap wireless streaming dongle thingy into a TV as well, you don’t really have to bother much with a fancy low latency / fast response time set up if you’re just streaming vids or movies.

    7.4 inch diagonal screen, 1280x800, ~12 hr battery life if you put it in a power save mode and just watch youtube or play a local file movie, OLED, $550 USD.

    Cheaper than a flagship phone, larger screen than a flagship phone (though less dpi / lower res, but the OLED is still OLED so you have that high brightness and contrast capability), probably more expensive than a… decent enough maybe? for your use case mid-low end tablet…

    But also Valve is still selling the older LCD Decks for $300, which is probably roughly the same or slightly more than a maybe decent enough mid-low end tablet.

    Or you could be in not the US and be looking at a different uh, price reality.