While improvements have been made to management to help they will still all suffer burn in. Use them with any static content and they will show signs of problems within months.
The burn in claims are grossly exaggerated. A simple pixel refresh that runs automatically when the screen sleeps counters the burn in. Most OLED screens you buy now have a pixel or panel refresh feature.
Probably all of them have it, I would be surprised if you could turn it off actually.
The “refresh” just makes the pic more uniform again, the refresh itself is a sort of controlled burn-in.
Not too long ago OLEDs would lose brightness due to it (especially red brightness iirc?).
As I stated it’s static content which will cause the most obvious issue, most TVs won’t show that. Refreshing the screen helps mitigate or hide most general damage now.
Even without pixel refresh, newer OLED panels generally don’t burn-in much, if at all. Still wouldn’t risk skipping the auto refresh, though honestly many of them run it without telling you now when the screen goes into standby. I wouldn’t even know my 2024 Alienware OLED ran it at all without accidentally interrupting it.
My oled phone from 2021 started slowly developing vertical lines of bad pixels this year and has some burn in on the status bar area. It’s still usable, but definitely kind of annoying and a lot worse than the status of the lcd on the older phone it replaced.
For a bright room they only now have(ish!) the juice to actually perform*, but they all recommend to run them are like 80% brightness.
*top, expensive models I mean, and even tho for a lot of content you need a little bit less brightness compared to even VA, due to contrast, but that is way not enough to make a difference + with dimness of OLEDs you have to be extra careful to buy one that actually has a black screen when turned off in a bright room (and not grey in a bright environment bcs it fucks the contrast).
So, my use case, with running at 100% brightness, I would have some sort of burn-in in a few years. Absolutely not something I want to look at for a decade.
And I’m old enough to have had beautiful PVA & MVA matrices that burned in (I bought them old actually -I clinged to my CRT for as long as possible, and then suffered TN for gaming- and for my second monitor most of the time).
One of my 1600×1200 PVAs (the later model without burn in) is still next to my serves, so every few years or so it shows console :‘’'(.
As I see it, for a bright room, there are no OLEDs … maybe some of the newest gen TVs maybe?
For a normal room, buy an OLED with the mentality that you might want to e-waste it after 5 years of taking care of it (no static content, no max brightness).
(This is way batter than 1 or 2 years from a few gens back.)
Isn’t oled better these days?
While improvements have been made to management to help they will still all suffer burn in. Use them with any static content and they will show signs of problems within months.
https://youtu.be/O2kPsKyF5bQ
The burn in claims are grossly exaggerated. A simple pixel refresh that runs automatically when the screen sleeps counters the burn in. Most OLED screens you buy now have a pixel or panel refresh feature.
Probably all of them have it, I would be surprised if you could turn it off actually.
The “refresh” just makes the pic more uniform again, the refresh itself is a sort of controlled burn-in.
Not too long ago OLEDs would lose brightness due to it (especially red brightness iirc?).
As I stated it’s static content which will cause the most obvious issue, most TVs won’t show that. Refreshing the screen helps mitigate or hide most general damage now.
Even without pixel refresh, newer OLED panels generally don’t burn-in much, if at all. Still wouldn’t risk skipping the auto refresh, though honestly many of them run it without telling you now when the screen goes into standby. I wouldn’t even know my 2024 Alienware OLED ran it at all without accidentally interrupting it.
My oled phone from 2021 started slowly developing vertical lines of bad pixels this year and has some burn in on the status bar area. It’s still usable, but definitely kind of annoying and a lot worse than the status of the lcd on the older phone it replaced.
For a bright room they only now have(ish!) the juice to actually perform*, but they all recommend to run them are like 80% brightness.
*top, expensive models I mean, and even tho for a lot of content you need a little bit less brightness compared to even VA, due to contrast, but that is way not enough to make a difference + with dimness of OLEDs you have to be extra careful to buy one that actually has a black screen when turned off in a bright room (and not grey in a bright environment bcs it fucks the contrast).
So, my use case, with running at 100% brightness, I would have some sort of burn-in in a few years. Absolutely not something I want to look at for a decade.
And I’m old enough to have had beautiful PVA & MVA matrices that burned in (I bought them old actually -I clinged to my CRT for as long as possible, and then suffered TN for gaming- and for my second monitor most of the time).
One of my 1600×1200 PVAs (the later model without burn in) is still next to my serves, so every few years or so it shows console :‘’'(.
As I see it, for a bright room, there are no OLEDs … maybe some of the newest gen TVs maybe?
For a normal room, buy an OLED with the mentality that you might want to e-waste it after 5 years of taking care of it (no static content, no max brightness).
(This is way batter than 1 or 2 years from a few gens back.)
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