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Is OLED burn-in still a problem?
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Optimum recently did a video on this. After 3000 hours his OLED got very faint burn-in of static UI elements. So it really depends on your use case.
If you'll use it to game for a couple of hours a day after work, it's probably gonna be 5 carefree years enjoying the wonderful OLED contrasts before you even start noticing burn-in.
If you (like me) need your monitors to stay on for the entire workday (and then some) - you probably won't be comfortable with the idea of starting to get noticeable burn-in after only a year of use.
Anyway, that's pretty much a dealbreaker for me and I'll probably be getting a MiniLED monitor instead. (Switch&Click recently had a video about this.)
I also like to buy stuff that will last ages, there are still monitors I bought in 2012 happily serving some of my family members. Buying something that will expire even if cared after seems... wasteful?
Yeah, 3k hours is nothing. I'm an edge case, but I am on my computer most waking hours, and gaming most of the time. I have something like 5.5k hours of game time in Forza Horizon 5, which just turned 4 years old; I have several other games I play heavily too, like 900 hours of American Truck Sim in the last 2 years.
I'm in the 'wait for prices to keep dropping' boat, and my current monitor is fine other than 'just' being a ips lcd instead of oled or whatever else. But at that time frame, I'd be buying new units like every 2 years. That's fucking insane. I expect like a decade of issue-free use from a monitor.
extremely dumb question, but why aren't there screensavers that will invert the average pixel use when you're not using it, opposite of safety, definitely not for office work, but home use?
OLED monitors typically have burn-in prevention and repair features built-in. They sometimes have a mode where the brightness can fade in and out depending on their use or one where pixels are triggered on and off repeatedly to help reverse existing burn-in.