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.
I’d have to see it for myself but “minor” burn in after only 2 years doesn’t sound acceptable at all
I have outright tortured my screen for the last 2 years and “minor” literally means it can only be seen at 0% brightness on a flat grey screen, and only if you know where it is already. If you go up even a single notch on the brightness it disappears completely.
You will get 10+ years out of them easily, just run the brightness at 25-50% instead of full blast all day.
I have a Gigabyte AO48U and one of the common complaints about it is that it auto-dims when a white background is on but I absolutely love this feature because fuck white backgrounds to death.
Sounds like you won’t get close to 10 years if after 2 the burn in starts
And I gotta keep my brightness down all day too just to be safe?
Lmao that’s simply why I’m not buying one 🤷♀️
Thousand+ dollar monitors degrading after a few years of normal use and that’s somehow acceptable to people…maybe when I’m rich lol
I agree, my monitors have 10+ years and it’s now at a point to be a good value. 2 years is nothing.
Let’s be generous and say it actually takes 4-5 years for noticeable burn in
Maybe I’m looking at the wrong model but this appears to be a $1400 monitor lol
That’s an absolutely insane value degradation but I suppose the target market are simply rich people and legitimate screen addicts
My oldest monitor is only a little over 10 years old and I think of it new. And it was less than a third of the cost.
You should watch the video. “Minor” is an overstatement. It’s completely invisible in normal use, and only barely visible if you put on a blank blue or grey background and squint really hard.
I dunno I’ve noticed blooming and other effects normally described as invisible or hard to see
Sometimes sure it’s either extremely rare or hardly noticeable but it’s still often a near constant enough annoyance
And what happens after 2 more years?
Are you using the same monitor? Blooming is not an affect of burn-in. If you want to know, watch the video. If you don’t, don’t. I don’t care.
No not for this monitor that was just an example of something recent I’ve seen on other monitors where people say the effects were not noticeable but they were to me and especially if the panel was dark
Ive noticed slight oled burn in on other peoples devices but I think it’s mostly them going blind to it because it’s part of their default setup so they’re extra unlikely to notice
And 3000 hours is 10 hours a day of on time for 300 days…how long are people using their monitors to stretch it to 2 years? I use my PCs and monitors for work, which is usually 7-8 hours a day, if I game later, then add another hour or two. That means burn in for normal use is in under a year.
Yeah this post is a delusional ad disguised as a review
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