I wanna use a monitor way longer than that tho
I’m using an LG C1 48in OLED as my primary work/play display (8+ hours use per day), and it has no sign of burn-in.
The general fear over burn-in is over-exaggerated, and the technology has improved leaps and bounds over those early generations.
Oh same, have I only have like 3k hours on mine though
how many years of use tho?
they keep promising OLED is now much better!!1! but every time i buy into an oled phone, it burns in.
It’s a C1; I got it in November ‘21.
This year they’re releasing the C4s, and the C3s are going on heavy discount.
well thats just 3 years now
Yes, over 2.5 years of heavy use; Including ~8hrs of spreadsheets and SQL (Mon - Fri), in addition to waaay too many hours of WOW (fixed HUD) than I’d care to admit.
Consider also then, that Wulff Den ran an OLED Switch for 18,000 hours (two years straight) at max brightness, on a relatively “cheap-quality” (his words) panel: YT link
Additional point: My iPhone Xs was my daily driver until 18 months ago, and now has been relegated to a baby monitor duty (static video for ~18hrs a day) and also does not have any burn-in visible. The brightness on it isn’t cranked all the way to 100%, but neither I would your desktop.
LG and Samsung (the key W-OLED & QD-OLED manufacturers) have implemented firmware-level optimisations to ensure that burn-in is minimised, if not outright eliminated in real-world situations. Again, refer to the Wulff Den video for the amount of effort he had to go to in order to cause the burn-in he did.
All I’m advocating for is not taking “the Internet says” as gospel, as a LOT of the OLED information is either outdated or irrelevant (cheaper/seconds OLED panels from tertiary manufacturers who omit maintenance cycles from their firmware).
So you are saying they should give even longer warranty against burn-in? I agree
Especially for $1000
yea seriously, 3 years is nothing.
and it makes no sense to pay more for a screen with better technical characteristics if all of those will be negated with a few years of use.
You still can
Who is buying a $1399 monitor and only planning on using it for 3 years outside of a really small group of people?
Do you stop using items as soon as their warranty is up?
No but OLED burn-in is something that is going happen from use, it’s not a ‘maybe it’ll fail in 5 years’ like an LCD monitor would be.
Plenty of people have OLED TVs that last longer than that, depends on the use case.
My laptop has an OLED screen and I’m pretty sure it’s older than 5yo now. No burn in. No dead pixels
I’ve been using an OLED as my primary monitor every day for three years now; the burn-in issues are greatly exaggerated. Not a single sign of burn-in, and I even disabled some of the protective features in the service menu to get a brighter picture. Modern panels are very good at mitigating the issue.
Yeah no thanks. Three years is too short.
I’ll wait for a good replacement for LCD (uled) because OLED was never it.
Agreed. My last LCD has lasted me over 10 years (1080p ultra wide). I only upgraded because my roommate got a new display and didn’t need his old one.
This just sounds like it’ll generate e-waste.
