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.
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.
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.
What deterioration for LCDs?
Backlights and blown PSUs mostly