Display device with graphics frame compression and methods for use therewith

A display subsystem comprising:

• an uncompressed graphical frame buffer that stores uncompressed graphical frame data;
• a compressed graphical frame buffer that stores compressed graphical frame data;
• a compression/decompression engine, coupled to the uncompressed graphical frame buffer and the compressed graphical frame buffer, that generates the compressed graphical frame data for storage in the compressed graphical frame buffer by compressing the uncompressed graphical frame data and further that retrieves the compressed graphical frame data from the compressed graphical frame buffer and regenerates the uncompressed graphical frame data;
• and
• a video display device, coupled to the coupled to the uncompressed graphical frame buffer and the compression/decompression engine, that displays at least one graphical plane over a plurality of video frames by:
• reading the uncompressed graphical frame data via an uncompressed read from the uncompressed graphical frame buffer for display in conjunction with a first frame of the plurality of video frames;
• and
• reading the uncompressed graphical frame data from the compressed graphical frame buffer via a compressed read from the compression/decompression engine for display in conjunction with a second frame of the plurality of video frames.