Have I just been really lucky or something with OLEDs? Almost all the ones I have had for 5+ years on phones and such, and even my nearly two year old desktop one, have nearly zero burn in.
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rtings.com has a long running test for burn in on OLED and uniformity on LCD:
https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/longevity-results-after-10-months
https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/longevity-burn-in-test-updates-and-results
You have to push them quite hard to get any significant burn in.
I've had an LG OLED tv for about 5 years, no burn in yet.
almost 5 years on my lg oled, zero burn-in. been using as a monitor, mostly with 75% brightness. lots of dead pixels on the edges though
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I’ve got a buddy who runs full brightness on every phone and complains when he gets screen burn-in. “If full brightness will cause burn-in, they shouldn’t let you set it that high.”
No, dude, they give you the option so you can use the phone outdoors in sunlight. But you shouldn’t run it that bright all the time, it’s bad for it and a waste of battery.
Every time I hand him my phone to show him something he cranks my brightness all the way up. I’m worried about his eyesight.
I was lurking the monitors subreddit looking for OLED monitor reviews, without fail every single person complaining about burn-in was running their monitors at 400-500 nits brightness.
I calibrated my LCD to 120 nits, and it's been perfect. Of course I don't use it with direct sunlight falling on it because who would do that with a stationary monitor
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This is almost 10 months of continuous use as a monitor spread over 5ish years.
My C1 which I've been using as a monitor has no burn in. Gray uniformity is not perfect and there are some minor issues with ghosting on grays but it's still a better monitor for my uaecase than anything else. I assume newer models are even better.
The last phone I had that got burn-in was a Samsung galaxy s5, even then I think it only started burning in after it got water damage from dropping down a waterfall (it was fine otherwise).
Mine was a Galaxy S8. Barely perceptible, but I noticed that the section of screen where I used to have the persistent on-screen navigation bar started to have some burn-in after 4-ish years of use
For my current phone, I use gesture controls and make sure that there's no persistent screen element displaying at the bottom of the screen. I still have persistent display elements for things like battery/network/time up top, but they're too tiny to really matter. Been using this phone now for 4 years as well and haven't noticed any burn-in at all.
I got my first OLED (pixel 6 pro) almost 3 years ago with no issues yet, and I got an LG C3 1.5-ish years ago. Still young but newer OLEDs have features built in to prevent burn-in. We'll see 🤞 the C3 looks incredible.
I have an LG OLED from about 8 years ago, and I do some rather pronounced burn in. I was also rather careful about leaving anything fixed on the screen. I have some friends with a slightly newer panel and they too have burn in. So maybe lucky? Or maybe your generation of panel is less susceptible than mine.
That said, I’m about to renovate my house, and when I’m done I’ll consider buying another OLED panel. Worth it in my opinion.
I have a CX and a G1 with no burn-in so far. I think newer panels have much better anti-burn-in protection.
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CRT owners after 50 years: "Respect my authoritah!"
CRT suffer from phosphor fade
That can be repaired. It’s not particularly easy, but it can be done and there are people who do it especially for old arcade machines.
more like that picture of randy with giant cancerous balls
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.
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?).
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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.
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2013 Plasma owner, no burn in here!
I loved the picture from our plasma, but the heat it generated was something else. It was like running a bar heater with better graphics. Literally needed to run the air conditioning to watch TV.
Also laughing in last generation plasma.
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2007 1080p LCD still kicking.
Also have one of the tiny CRTs with the VCR built in that is god knows, 80s or 90s.
I also have a 1080p 2007 LCD still kicking. To be fair, any lcd I ever bought is still in great shape. But that one is the oldest.
My CRTs eventually started showing burn in. Also we never had a special one so image quality was ok at best, even compared to our first LCD units, so I can't say I miss them.
Give it up one more time for old LCDs trucking along, such perseverance, really awesome
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My LCDs are nearly two decades old. Insane value
I finally had to replace mine at over 15 years, maybe even close to 20 years, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a panel failure but one of the boards because it just shut off one day and never came back on. And prices had gone down so much in that time I went out and bought two 27” full HD monitors at Costco for what I think is the same or less than what I paid for that 17” SXGA in the early ’00s.
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Two years ago I had to throw a screen away, because once I retired an old GPU, I had no device left with a VGA port.
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OLED burn-in hasn't been an issue for years. Last time I got burn-in was 2014.
All of my screens are OLED (PC monitors, TV, phone, car stereo). The oldest display in my house is from 2019. None of them are showing any signs of burn-in, and I obsessively check for it all the time.
Shhh… quit trying to convince these people, let them have their inferior response times and colours. Less competition for the enlightened, means that prices won’t skyrocket due to an influx of demand.
I have a TV with "Edge LED" since 2017. No HDR but nice picture and still going strong with too many hours of gaming.
Nevermind. It’s regular LCD.
All that edge LED crap was such BS marketing. Even most renditions of the zoned backlighting are trash that makes obvious bright spots and glowing features in the wrong scenes.
Anyone selling a "LED TV" that was just LED backlighting should've been fined.
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I don't quite understand this post. Is it saying that LCD panels suffer much more severe burn-in than OLED over a longer time period?
The exact opposite actually. All the lcd I have are over 10 years old. They don't give up.
even my phone got burn in…
Yep mine too after only a couple years. I knew it was going to be a problem when I bought the phone, but I do like the true black....
I still think there is no better picture than a plasma screen and I’ll die on this hill.
(probably alone)
I have an old plasma and it's fine. The burn in is real though
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CRT is laughing, and not in its grave, because it will outlast them all.
I was actually thinking what would lead to a Alien Earth type situation where everyone is still using CRT.
The screen will, but my ears won’t. Idk I am just old enough to have been at the tail end of CRTs, but I can’t stand the high pitched whine. They all do that, right?
You can't hear it much out of your 20's unless you're an edge-case-human. The frequencies in question that you're referring to are ones that almost all humans are deaf to by the time they're 30.
CRTs whine at ~15kHz, which should be audible until at least your 40s.
I'm 37, and have absolutely destroyed my hearing by always having a loud sound system with booming subs in my car ever since I was a teenager, yet I can still hear up to ~17kHz. I can always tell when I'm in a house with a running CRT.
If you're younger than me and can't hear CRTs, can't tell the difference between FM and HD Radio, or the difference between a 96kbps MP3 and 320k/lossless, then it might be a good idea to get a hearing test.
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I have a 55" Samsung plasma TV from 2015 and a 2020 83" Samsung OLEDTV and a 2023 53" Ultrawide Samsung computer monitor.
Each one has hours and hours of use a day. None has burn-in.
The only thing you do notice is the 53" Ultrawide image will shift around every 5 minutes.
I have a 27 year old LCD that would still be great but the fluorescent tube that backlights it has dimmed. It's on my trash pile of projects to fix it with an led strip.
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