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I’d never own a OLED for desktop use due to burn in.
by TylerE 3y ago
I’d never own a OLED for desktop use due to burn in.
- jsheard 3y agoThey haven't solved it completely but it's getting better, we're at the point now where some manufacturers like Dell are confident enough to cover burn-in under warranty for 3 years. If they can get that up to 5 years I'd probably be okay with just upgrading after that point when it starts showing burn-in.
- TylerE 3y ago3 years isn’t nearly enough. My average screen lasts about a decade.
- kube-system 3y agoYour LCD is out of warranty by then too.
- riversflow 3y agobut no burn in on my LCD.
- o11c 3y agoWarranties are irrelevant if the LCDs don't actually fail though.
- shiroiushi 3y agoDo you throw away everything you own when its warranty expires?
- KerrAvon 3y agoThis is a completely reasonable take, though do note that they’ve come a long way over the past decade, in both improvements to materials and active management to reduce burn-in risk. I use a newish OLED TV for gaming and it’s both glorious and I’m not actually worried about burn-in. I’m not sure I’d risk full-time desktop use, but in a couple of years? Maybe.
- TylerE 3y agoOne man’s “active management” is another’s “blatantly obvious pulsing”. My barely a year old OLED TV reduces brightness so aggressive it makes bright white menus look lime they have an animated background. They don’t, it’s just the white dripping to almost gray after a second or two as the whole display dims. You can reduce this effect by dripping the peak nuts down… but then you lose much of the contrast ratio that’s the main point of OLED in the first place I’ll also add that there have been several TV manufacturers that swear they’ve solve burn in, but the rtinge long term testing is… rather less kind.
- neRok 3y agoMy Gigabyte OLED monitor is 2 years old now and gets used for many hours on most days and shows no changes. I bugged out the time counter for a few months by putting the panel in to service mode, but still it is up to 4040 hours, or 5.5 hours per day for 2 years. Your other post mentions the screen brightness dropping with white menus open, but that is not because of a burn in protection feature, but instead it's because of limits on the total power consumption of the panel (either because of power efficiency laws, or too much heat).
- TylerE 3y agoIt's the same thing. Heat is the major cause of burn in.
- denkmoon 3y agoThat's a tradeoff like everything else in life. You're trading visual quality for longevity.
- cryptonector 3y agoFor me the pulse width modulation is just too annoying: it causes terrible headaches.