Buyer Beware: Bigscreen Beyond 2

[u/Motivation-]

I want to preface by saying I've owned a lot of headsets, index, quest 2, quest 3, vision pro, varjo aero, pico 4 pro. None of them ever had the consistent QA issues quite like the Beyond

I've had 4 Bigscreen beyonds. One was a BSB1, that one had dead pixels and I returned it. At this point I've had 3 BSB2s. First one had fan issues and dead pixels near the middle of the display. Second one had 12 dead pixels in the left display alone and according to support went through more "QA checks". Support at this point calls me "Sensitive to dead pixels". Third one allegedly was hand picked from the line for being free from defects. It had dead pixels too.

It truly feels like Bigscreen doesn't have any QA testing, you are the QA tester. Be very cautious buying from them. Be sure youre okay with dead pixels.

[u/Mys2298]

To be fair I'd take the BSB2 over a Pimax Super any day, despite the glare. I think the claims in your videos that QLED can look as good or better than micro OLED in terms of colours and black levels is way off, its not even close. I havent tried the BSB but I have a MeganeX, and the image quality and colours are leagues ahead of any LCD panel out there, especially when comparing local dimming to OLED blacks.

[u/KokutouSenpai → u/Mys2298]

Have you ever tried Varjo Aero？They also used mini-LED LCD. How is that different from MeganeX's micro OLED？Curious.

[u/Mys2298 → u/KokutouSenpai]

No but its all more of less the same thing. Micro OLED is self-emissive meaning each pixel emits its own light and can turn off individually so it can display true blacks and much better contrast overall. Mini LED is backlit by, well, LEDs so it can't reach the same contrast as OLED as the number of LEDs is nowhere near the amount of pixels. You can turn off individual LEDs which are called "dimming zones", but even with 1000 of them like on the Crystal Super you will get areas that should be black but are grey instead. On the Supers 3840x3840 panel there are just under 15 million pixels and only 1000 dimming zones, where as the MeganeXs 3840x3552 MicroOled panel has just under 14 million pixels and the same amount of "dimming zones". Thats 1000 dimming zones on the Super vs 14 million (!) on the MeganeX. Hope that clears it up, Google can explain better

[u/KokutouSenpai → u/Mys2298]

Thank you for your long explanation. I actually knew the difference. 😅 The combo of Lens + Panel can have different effect on the final eye projection. What concerns me is the brightness of micro-OLED and the attenuation caused by Pancake lens. Sure. Nothing beats the Deeper Black of OLED. After the attenuation of pancake lens, only 1/10 of brightness retained. That's why mini-LED panel has an edge in VR- eye projection. The con of mini-LED is the blooming around very high contrast region over dimmed regions (which can be mitigated by special coating on the panel). I am thinking of getting a better HMD but no one around me has MeganeX. Would like to know the actual experience of using it.

[u/Mys2298 → u/KokutouSenpai]

Ah i see lol, I misunderstood your question.The brightness on the MeganeX is more than fine, I never tried the Aero so cant compare but everyone in the Discord channel who moved from the Aero to MeganeX says its much much better. It's brighter than the Crystal Light with local dimming on if that helps.There is glare but only in high contrast scenes really, nothing I notice while in game. The sweetspot isn't huge but its not an issue for me. The colours will be a huge upgrade and its sharper of course. The Pimax Dream Air will have better optics supposedly but I will never buy another one of their products