After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor fails to burn-in significantly
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Burn-in does happen, just not very much.

Burn-in is the one big worry with OLED monitors. But evidence that it shouldn’t be a dealer breaker for gamers is approaching critical mass thanks to another long-term assessment released today.

YouTube channel Optimum has been using a 32-inch 4K LG WOLED monitor for around 3,000 hours over two years and has found only minor burn-in. This is a particularly handy metric given that one of the best known existing trackers of OLED burn-in by Monitors Unboxed has been based on a monitor with a Samsung QD-OLED panel. Now we have something similar for LG WOLED.

    • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      That’s… not really a logical conclusion from the article, or from anyone’s experience with either technology.

      Anecdotally, back in 2012 I bought a secondhand LCD TV made in 2009. That was used as my primary work, gaming, and media display for 4 years before being relegated to a bedroom TV.

      I moved that TV to my shop in 2019, it’s been playing a rotation of videos since then - coming up on 7 consecutive years.

      There’s no ghosting or visible degradation on that TV, you’re commenting on an article describing degradation on a display used 4 hours a day for 2 years.

      My shop also runs a bunch of other older LCD monitors - at least 5 of them are 12 or more years old and in active use every day.

      • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        It’s another data point to quickly growing trove of evidence. You can’t speak for everyone, especially not TV repair shops. Anecdotally, I would know, I work with one. The longevity of TVs has been steadily declining for the past decade, and modern LCDs have a lot more points of (regular) failure than OLEDs, and their deterioration is a lot more distracting than the burn-in of early OLEDS.

        • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          51 minutes ago

          I get inquiries for TV repair, though I don’t take them in because they take up too much space.

          Just like monitor repair, the inquiries usually boil down to a cracked panel or a power on issue. Rest would be backlight, followed by miscellaneous “weird stuff” as the edge cases.

          I can’t actually remember the last time I even saw a stuck or dead pixel, laptops with LCD panels make up the overwhelming majority of devices that I service.

          Can’t say my experience aligns with your claims, and OLED displays have not been in widespread use long enough to be able to make a realistic comparison of longevity.