... Why are the Chinese manufacturiers doing their best to have an eye friendly screens ...
Good question and I am glad this point was finally raised.
(Assuming that what you have raised is a legitimate question and not a rhetorical one.)
The reason why Chinese manufacturers appear to be revising and improved version of flicker reduction implementation so rapidly is because they work directly with the flicker sensitive community. They constantly collect feedback, and continue to push the boundaries of OLED panels, while being mindful of the restrain of the panels' limits.
Both the flicker sensitive communities and the engineers work unanimously.
However, unfortunately the same cannot be said about the western english online community counterpart.
In our english (general) community, the more vocal ones are mostly "every man for themselves". Many are (in general) motivated by their self-interest, and mostly driven by finding the phone/ panel that works only for themselves, rather than for the community.
Additionally, this phenomenon is perhaps also attributed to the「自分中心」mentality. (I can't really translate this japanese word to english, but it is somewhere along the lines of "having the world revolves around oneself"). For many that are not sensitive to the flickers, there is an assumption that should it not work for the others, then it is likely a "YOU" problem.
Moving on diving in deeper into our familiar community, we still do continue to see the same behavior being exhibited. For instance, with the recently launched Pixel 8/ 8 pro. A few who have early access to the device made bold statements that this year's Google's iteration have finally resolved the demi-decade long PWM issue. The statement was made on the basis that if it worked for them, them it ought to have worked for everyone else in the flicker sensitive community.
The above mentality have neglected that every other individual is different and that different individuals could have different level of flicker sensitivity threshold. (In social psychology, this is called
Fundamental attribution error. Explanation to concept in the link below).
This polarization that exist even within our flicker sensitive community makes senior display engineers role difficult.
Referring back to the earlier example — hypothetically speaking, should Pixel 8 pro is the
pinnacle of OLED dimming methods for the flicker sensitive community, then it is correct to assume that more of Pixel 8 pro's dimming implementation ought to be continued in all other future devices. As this was what have worked well for the community.
However, despite the above, the online community continued to complain of PWM sensitivity. This contradiction puts the display engineers in a difficult position.
Furthermore, within the online community there are those that attempted to use conspiracy theories(of companies) to generate hype, web views traffics, drawing attention to oneself for one's personal gains. When display engineers browse through the community and saw those allegation and conspiracies made against them, it puts further strain in the relationship between the manufacturers and our english speaking community.
Of course, this is a generalization. Over the last few years, we also saw many individuals that have attempted to make a difference. Such as:
• Going all out to purchase a smartphone to test on behalf of the community;
• Buying flicker meters so that screen flickers can be quantified and represented in data — and then shared among the communities for observable common patterns;
• Building their own custom oscilloscope and sharing knowledge on how to build one;
• Constantly having the community updated with the progress on their symptoms (Something I have observed that is commonly practiced in this forum community as well, which is really fantastic);
However, we do not have a common practice where we have some form of quantifiable data where the community can agree unanimously that it might work ~ for the 5th percentile to the 95 percentile of the flicker sensitive community.
As of now,what our english community can agree that only readings from LCD panels work for this range of 5th to 95th percentile.
This is not an option for the display engineers since LCD panels are likely to be phrased out entirely in the near future.
I hope this answers your question as to why are the Chinese manufacturers appears to be doing their best to have eye friendly screens for their consumers. While on the other hand the same cannot be applied to our english speaking community.
This is mainly attributed to different cutures, different context, and different mentality.
Concept to the above phenomenon I have pointed out on this cultural difference between the english and chinese community is called:
Fundamental attribution error.
source:
courses.lumenlearning.com
